Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Finding "Root" duplicates
Is there a way to find out what questions have many questions that are closed as duplicates of them (or duplicates of duplicates etc)?
It seems that these would be good ways of finding out what ...
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Conditional search
Is there a way to search for posts containing (text1 OR text2) AND text3?
Edit for clarity: It would be the same as a join of the searches text1 AND text3 and text2 AND text3
There probably is, just ...
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Merge questions
Mea culpa. I posted a question here a while ago, didn't get any responses, so I posted again over at stackoverflow. However, that post was migrated back here, so now I have two pretty-much identical ...
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SuperUser is not allowing me to post an answer
I can't post an answer to the question.
I get Oops! Something Bad Happened! page. There is the text from the webpage:
We apologize for any inconvenience,
but an unexpected error occurred while
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Superuser.com bug with pixel.quantserve.com?
I have noticed this for the past few days, Many SuperUser.com pages simply do not finish loading.
I refreshed the page ten times, once it was stuck on "Waiting for www.gravitar.com...", but ...
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Spam edits by same user
I had two spam edits from the same user in a short interval: on this contribution and and this one (which I rolled back). Despite his reputation he (or she) seems to be a rather difficult user (I ...
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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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Question about chips
I'd like to post a question about a specific computer chip.
I have a tiny piece of hardware that has been presented as being a chip with embedded information.
I think it's actually just a contact to ...
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Is my question still too broad? If yes, why?
Some time ago I posted this question that was put on hold as too broad. A few hours later I edited it, hoping to make it more suitable for the site.
Is my question still too broad? If yes, can ...
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Whats with all the bad image links today?
Since last night, I've encountered a surprising number of posts on superuser with image links that say "Enter image Description Here", and which fail to resolve to a page on Imgur (Connection reset ...
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Collaborating on the Super User site blog
I just read Calling all bloggers.... Again today. I am a school student who is really interested in tech and my holidays started today so I think that I might contribute a few articles.
The problem ...
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Let's nuke a tag down to its [origins]
We have five questions tagged origins.
Three are about origins of something (history).
One is about the screen positioning (with origin at 0,0), and one is about a game client.
I propose to be ...
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Are these Fail2Ban, Munin and “Failed password” related questions more appropriate for Server Fault?
While I spend a good chunk of time here on Super User, my day-to-day/work-a-day head is in the Linux server administration world. A lot of times there’s overlap between “power user” needs and server ...
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Right answer picked up wrongly as an audit, because somebody marked it as a new question?
This answer appeared in the First Post queue:
Change it the way you would your videos library by right-clicking the folder on your hard drive, choosing properties and selecting the location tab.
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Why am I being told "Wait some of your questions have not been well recived"?
I have asked three questions, but am now seeing a "Wait some of your questions have not been well received" banner across my profile. What can I do to improve my questions?
At first I didn't know how ...
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Duplicate questions of very old posts
I was about to post a question on Superuser, when I found that there was a duplicate of exactly the question I wanted to ask, only it was asked 3 and half years ago with no good answer.
Is it OK for ...
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Spam detection in answer
I am new to superuser. I posted a question (DDR3 SDRAM compatibility: clock speed and timings), got no answer, did some more reading on the topic and decided to write an answer. But I cannot submit my ...
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Too sneaky review audits
I was reviewing a first post, and it showed a post by user....... The answer looked OK, but I clicked the link to the question to see the other answers, and there was the exact same post by LPChip. So ...
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What makes a history-tagged question closed?
I love to read about computer history. There are many questions regarding history on SU and a history tag. Some of the questions are closed:
https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/history?sort=votes&...
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Why did Zonealarm warn me Stackoverflow could be phishing site? [closed]
I clicked on a migrated question from Stack Overflow and received this warning from ZoneAlarm:
Anything to be worried about?
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Do I need to post more details in this question?
I posted this question a day ago but it has not received many views and I haven't received any feedback for it.
What can I do to attract more attention towards this question? How can I improve it?
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Where to ask the question “Which X have the largest share of users?”
I wanted to ask a question about software usage statistics here, but other people don’t seem to like my question, for reasons I can’t really understand. Is there anywhere on Stack Exchange where I ...
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Do you really always need to make an edit summary?
I just tried to edit a question with poor spelling and no punctuation. Why does this require an edit summary? I believe I have seen edits without edit summary. Does this have something to do with my ...
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Are questions about connecting smartphones to computers on-topic?
This question asks about connecting a smartphone to a computer and transfering files. It was put on-hold as off-topic.
The list of on-topic subjects, linked on the very on-hold message, says ...
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Can I see who voted on my posts? Can anyone?
Is there a way to see who upvoted our questions, answers, or comments? If there isn't, is there a reason that this is not available?
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Are user-level troubleshooting questions appropriate?
Questions like: When Abode Reader plugin attempts to open web documents in IE8, sometimes a blank dialog box appears and the document fails to open.
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What is happening to my SU rep? (Or, how is my rep changing before my eyes!)
So today I've had a fair few upvotes, no downvotes - reached 6660 on SU, then went and had some tea. Came back, 6668. Damn, a downvote! Who has offended my honour so?
Nobody, apparently. Now my rep ...
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SU question closed as Exact Duplicate, but it does not seem to be the same to me.
I posted this question yesterday evening:
Good software to take a blog and format it for printing
It is a question looking for a software tool that will take a blog and format it for printing.
This ...
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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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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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What should I do about a question I posted that is not answered?
This question I asked ("How to deleting user data in Windows 7 on shutdown or start up”) is not being answered. What should I do?
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A user keeps criticizing all my answers - some taughts about downvotes
I usually do my best to be kind to people and describe all my ideas and possible solutions to their problems.
At some point (I don't know when/how) I might have insulted someone, or at least I ...
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Question downvote miscalculation?
I recently downvoted a poorly written question. The downvote was registered on the question, the change in reputation was documented on the user's page, the downvote count on my profile incremented, ...
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Consider migrating all questions tagged Android to android SE
There are a few dozen questions in Super User tagged android. Most of these have been closed as off-topic. They should be migrated to the relevant SE.
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Finding all questions I have asked that are "un-answered"?
I have been asking more than a few questions here. I have never – that I know of – marked any of them as "answered". How can I bring up a screen of questions I have asked so I can mark them – ...
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Could someone be nice enough to add windows-phone-8.1 as a tag to superuser.com?
I haven't enough rep. The windows-phone-8 tag exists but 8.1 not.
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What do I do if someone posts an answer I had as a comment?
This just happened here. I posted a possible solution as a comment (not being sure if it would work for the asker), and while I was waiting for a reply, krowe posted basically what I had as an answer. ...
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How do I get a question semi-protected?
I've got a question getting lots of me-too answers, how can I get it semi-protected so that only established users can add answers?
How to save a rotated Adobe PDF file
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GitHub Questions?
Something crazy weird just happened to me on GitHub yesterday. I'm not sure if I can understand what exactly happened; the audit trail looks ... self-incriminating.
Is this the right place to ask ...
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Is there some program that searches SuperUser for bad words in posts?
Earlier tonight I posted something asking about MediaWiki and I tried to ask "how do I do that" but I accidentally typed "hoe do I do that". I realized this because one of the site admins edited the ...
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Why can't I post my question on Super User?
Well, I've been using the Stack Exchange sites since a while, and, I could say that, I'm not a total newbie on these sites. But, there's something so annoying that I couldn't able to send and ask any ...
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Request to reopen green question 298408
Now that I've found an answer I'd like to request that How can I determine the ecological impact of a computer? is reopened. I hope that my answer, in addition to the one already there, demonstrates ...
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Is it OK to ask questions about a certain product on Super User?
I am looking for a webcam and I wanted to know if I can ask for recommendations on superuser. Is this kind of thing allowed?
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Why aren't there any SuperUser users with a Beta badge?
Why aren't there any SuperUser users with a Beta badge?
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I have a question ban and I have no idea how to fix it [duplicate]
I'm unable to post questions, but stack exchange does not point out what is wrong with my posts, nor give me good direction beyond "edit your questions". So it expects me to blindly edit my ...
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Can somebody of rank create a tag #albert for me?
I am the author of the app albert launcher and want to redirect users in the support channel to this site to ask or find questions. Can somebody please add the #albert, #albertlauncher or #albert-...
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Question marked as off-topic
This question marked as off topic because it's "seeking for hardware shopping recommendations".
The question title itself makes clear this is an incorrect reading ("Calculating an appropriate wattage ...
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Why is my comment locked from editing & how can I modify it?
I have commented on an user's answer to my question here & I wish to modify it
but the edit button is missing/doesn't exist
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How does rep carry over from Super User to Meta Super User?
I do not quite understand how this works. My Meta user here has 509 rep, and my main user has 513 rep. Why is there that difference? It would seem to me that, since I have not answered/asked any ...
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2 diamond moderators closed a post
How did this question get closed by two diamond moderators? I was under the impression that a single diamond moderator vote to close immediately closed the question.
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