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Strange audit result
In the Close Votes review queue, I got Graphics Card Adapter Is Facing Backwards as an audit question.
The question had a colorful history: closed by a moderator as unclear, subsequently edited a ...
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Super User Swag is still wanted
Looking through the sidebar, I found this old question about the Super User mug. I'm wondering if there's any update from the team about making swag available for purchase any time soon? Or what kind ...
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How to Report Cyclic Flagging?
This question is flagged as a duplicate of this question. However, that 2nd question is also flagged as a duplicate of the first.
How do I bring this to the proper individuals' attention?
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Why call It Super User?
Stack Overflow and Server Fault are both clearly for problems in their respective fields. As such, why is Super User to be called Super User? Is it because it too begins with an S? What were other ...
AlbertoPL
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Are “evolving answers” supported on Super User?
Preface: I believe that this question is somewhat in line with this other Meta question about troubleshooting questions in 2023.
While calling out another user who chronically posts “answers” (such ...
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How to choose a community?
There are some communities with intersecting subjects with superuser.com. For example I could ask this question about volume control in linux at unix community, or this about hotkeys at software ...
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Would this question about printing a webpage be on-topic on Super User?
I'm trying to print a Medium post:
https://medium.com/@keeper6928/how-to-unit-test-machine-learning-code-57cf6fd81765
but no matter what I do, the code chunks get cropped. In the actual question, of ...
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Idle moderator position
quack quixote has left Super User for good (here is the related post), and he still seems to have the moderator position (obviously idle). I think this position should be granted (by election) to an ...
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Flagging posts that answer the question with something the OP has already dismissed
Note: This is a follow-up on Is “Y” really a valid answer to “I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work”? — because I don't think this is sufficiently answered, or at least doesn't seem too ...
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Did I do such low-quality questions? Please review my ban
Now I want to ask about a connection problem and I find my account banned from asking questions.
What did I do to get this? Were my questions out of scope? If so, why no one says which site is the ...
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Is anonymous & low rep vote information accessible?
Low rep and anonymous visitors who vote on posts see a message that their vote was recorded, but the information isn't visible anywhere. There is some reporting of this available to a limited number ...
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Possible false positive spam detection. Support and tips solicited
I have a question about my Super User post: My TV is not detected when I connect to my laptop through Thunderbolt/HDMI cable
My original answer to this question was http://pastebin.com/WGJbmwhQ.
I ...
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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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Why does a design comparison question between win8 and win7 score 25 votes but get -1 votes with winxp and win7?
There is this interesting question Why are start-up times faster on Windows 8? and currently it has 25 votes. It focuses on win7 to win8 differences from performance point of view.
I thought it would ...
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Are risqué avatars allowed? Failure of the Gravatar rating system?
I stumbled upon this user who had this ¿pornographic? gravatar {link edited out}.
(Note that the Gravatar rating system seems to have failed in this case.)
While I, personally, think that such ...
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What is the etiquette regarding asking a question again on another Stack Exchange site?
I've asked a question on SuperUser before I realised that Ask Different existed. I feel that my question would be better served on the the Ask Different Stack Exchange site. How should I go about ...
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Suspicious downvote pattern
I have noticed some suspicious downvotes on my questions recently.
Jul 25
-2 23:44 downvote XML, XHTML, SGML and HTML
Jul 23
-2 51 mins ago downvote GUI editor for editing djvu ...
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Are spammers' public IP addresses blocked for login or account creation?
I've noticed more spam-type questions (and absurd profanity) here lately on Super User (this may be normal though I'm kind of new still), but I was curious if there is any type of public IP address ...
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Are smartphone questions permitted on Super User?
The Super User FAQ states that superuser.com is for asking questions related to computer hardware and software.
Is asking iPhone or android questions allowed?
EDIT: Maybe the real question is: do we ...
Nick Kavadias
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Are "error" and "problem" meta-tags?
From http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/:
If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.
Clearly, error and problem fit this criterion.
If ...
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Is "Y" really a valid answer to "I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work"?
A few flags of mine were declined when I flagged answers that suggest to do things the OP dismissed as not working right in his question. The reason for being declined is the following:
declined - ...
Daniel BeckMod
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What's the difference between [windows-defender] and [microsoft-defender]?
There are two tags on the main site which seem to be synonymous:
windows-defender (367 Q&As)
microsoft-defender (8 Q&As)
The latter has no tag wiki or any info attached (not even a brief ...
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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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Can we or can we not discuss DRM removal?
I wanted to ask a question about removing DRM from content I own, so I researched the issue here on Meta. I came across Is discussion of techniques for removing DRM permitted? which seems to have a ...
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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
I keep seeing users like this, the quality of their posts is abysmal:
Can we get a captcha or something? Would that help? What else can be done? One of those things where you have to solve a little ...
user1482432
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Why am I having difficulty getting specific answers?
First off, I am wholly prepared to accept responsibility for vagueness in my questions. As such I want to clear any up. As yet, they are not apparent to me. As such, I'd like to request better ...
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Why was the question "Why are there 8 bits per byte?" closed?
TL;DR: I'm looking for opinions on why this question should be open or closed.
Answer: I now understand why it has been closed: It is not a real problem because it has no practical use.
https://...
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Question FAQ doesn't cover a way how to handle a reopen request the best way
I started this topic:
https://superuser.com/questions/477470/which-personal-finance-manager-has-network-based-multiuser-support
The question was closed, because the first version was a bit ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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What happens if two or more users are reviewing the same question/answer?
Pretty much as the tile says, what will happen if two users are reviewing the same item?
Is it possible at all, or when one opens a review item, is the reviewed item not available to anyone else ...
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Stewardship of the byobu tag
A friend of mine writes Byobu and prefers to use stackexchanges rather than the Launchpad Answers feature. However there are 77 questions worth of decent content there. He'd like to move over to using ...
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Odd poster - offensive answer content - what should I do?
Off of this question.
There is a user who has now posted three questions I find offensive to the point where I edited them, and flagged for a mod.
At this point I'm beginning to wonder what he means ...
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Swap the duplicates (the general question is closed, the vista-specific one is open)
Following the answer of How to suggest to change "X is a duplicate of Y" to "Y is a duplicate of X"?, I'm posting my question here:
How do I full-screen my CMD? is marked as a ...
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How to deal with reoccuring specific questions not being useful to others
Some questions like "Dualboot some GNU/Linux distribution (mostly Ubuntu) with Windows 7/8" are being asked more than five times a day and are broad in their nature, so I start to think about marking ...
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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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Question about printer interpretation of colors
I have a question about my Super User post: Printer colors differ between ps/pdf draw commands and images
Burgi raised the concern that the linked question might be a better fit for Graphic Design. ...
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Windows question closed as duplicate of Linux
How to reorder the files of a FAT32 file system?
This question was closed as duplicate; however this does not make sense. The closed question is for Windows, and the supposed duplicates are both ...
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User vandalized own question - roll back?
This question:
Content removed. I do not consent to "AI" scraping
Screenshot at the time I wrote this:
On other SE sites as well:
Rolling this back will return in a tug of war.
What to do?
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Same question, different program?
I had a problem that I wanted to solve regarding the program Numbers (macOS's spreadsheet program, analogous to Excel). I found a question that is the exact issue I'm having, but the answer is ...
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how do I view revisions to a question?
how do I view revisions to a question (presumably including tag changes)?
do I need a certain rep amount, if so how much?
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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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where to ask about website CMS, like wordpress SU or SO?
Wordpress is technically computer software, but it is also programming and development. So where should I ask a question about a WP plugin on SO or SU?
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I can't mark two answers correct, so how should I curate this nugget of knowledge?
I have collated both answers into a new answer, but don't want to give myself the points or kudos for getting a correct answer when I'm just clarifying two answers?
Hope this makes sense: see here:
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One of those "trick" questions [duplicate]
Just chillin'
I was in Review and the below question popped up but in a different view not showing the votes as one of those "test" reviewer questions that grade you based on whether or not it feels ...
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Question erroneously declared to be a duplicate
How can I create multipart tar file in Linux?
This question is currently number one result in Google for "how to create multipart rar in Linux".
The question that they claim is a duplicate is NOT a ...
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Re-open request for question 312922
What Can I do to Improve Cable Link/Signal Quality?
The author specifically mentions that he has internet connection problems due to this issue. Finally, I present this clause from the SuperUser FAQ ...
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Stepping on someone elses work
I have been working on a question on SuperUser for a user who was having issues with VMWare images and player, but now I am very concerned.
All VMware software & their installers fail to start, ...
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Why did I have all but one reputation point removed and get accused of spamming?
I was browsing through questions and all of a sudden my reputation on Super User dropped from 16 to 1, this I am sure of, and I can't seem to find a reason why.
On the other hand, I think my ...
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Super User or SuperUser?
Officially, how are we supposed to write Super User?
SuperUser (NO space)
Super User (WITH space)
I'm constantly wondering about this whenever I go to write Super User, etc, and I've seen all ...
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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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