Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Merge [office-2013] into [microsoft-office-2013]
Currently, office-2013 and microsoft-office-2013 are separate tags. Can someone merge the former into the latter?
microsoft-office-2013 should be the canonical tag, given that:
microsoft-office-...
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Reopen or still a duplicate?
Using onboard and dedicated graphics cards simultaneously for mixed performance
This question was closed as a duplicate assuming the OP wanted to use multiple monitors, and it was edited to clarify ...
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Windows 8 challenge - participation for a post before the challenge started
I answered a question regarding searching the Windows Store in Windows 8 before the Windows 8 challenge started. This post would qualify me for Level 2 in the challenge, as it's got a score of 6.
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What is the position on people advertising their own services?
I've been helping with the following question:
What limitations apply to SSL Certificates?
But another user has answered offering professional services. What is the feeling about this, is it allowed?...
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Reopen and migrate question 396934
The following question was closed for being poorly written and off topic (strictly smart phone, iOS related):
https://superuser.com/questions/396934/how-can-i-paste-link-on-the-form-after-copying-a-...
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How to change a set bounty
Is it possible to increase bounty?
Like I have set bounty to this question to 100, but I would like to raise it to 150. Does the system allow me to do so?
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Retag/synonym request: "webbrowser" -> "browser"
It seems like the webbrowser (5 questions) tag needs to be merged into and become synonymous with browser (702 questions) (per the definition of the latter tag). I'd do it manually, but I can't ...
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Am I able to move a question of mine from SuperUser to IT Security?
Namely, this one? And, if not, what is the Right Way to ask for it to be moved?
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Reputation for 'marked as answer' not credited
Today a response by me Matlab user guides in Kindle format was marked as answer and also upvoted .
The upvote was credited but the reputation points for marked as answer was not
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Issues with OpenID.org - allow users register with their email?
User Randolph Richardson is a contributing member of SU, but he is an unregistered user because he cannot get his OpenID.org account to work properly. I have offered to merge his unregistered account ...
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What happened to question "Worst Web Site Design Ever"?
I realise this question - https://superuser.com/questions/15798/worst-web-site-design-ever - isn't appropriate for Super User, but did it just get deleted and that's it?
IMHO it had some decent low ...
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Community bumping [status-completed] on meta.SU?
I don't think that it is right that the community user is bumping [status-completed] questions.
What do you think?
What about the other status tags?
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Cannot vote at all, but can edit / tag etc.
I cannot seem to vote on Superuser. I can on Stackoverflow however.
Error log in Firefox says Error: vote is not defined.
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Better to delete/repost or request migration?
My question about Debian on an iMac hasn't gotten much attention, and I'd like to try it on https://unix.stackexchange.com/. I'm happy to delete and repost there, or flag for moderator attention. Is ...
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Answer for a closed question; how?
I think the question https://superuser.com/q/1750696/964771 should not be closed. After some investigation I found the solution (cause of the problem). However with the question being closed I cannot ...
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Is it possible to create custom filter to search for a tag on a few / selected sites?
At this moment I'm mostly looking for the questions and answers connected to ffmpeg tag.
Most of them are here, on superuser.com, but I can also see them on the other sites like video.stackexchange....
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I think my question has been closed unfairly
My question was:
"Is it true that using different sized RAM's will not lead to a better performance in 2020 laptops"
I've edited the question, but there seems to be some type of bot which ...
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Can I award a bounty to somebody who solved my problem but did not answer my question?
I asked a question a week ago, asking what I thought was a bizarre problem (but turns out it's not). Two days and no answer so far, I decided to start a 50 rep bounty in hope of seeking answer, as I ...
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How do you gain reputation without asking something?
I'm Talha Yaser, and I need reputation to comment. How do I gain reputation without asking a question on this platform?
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How do I move an ongoing comment swarm to chat when the OP has only 1 point?
I can't find an answer to this and have searched through the matches that I could find with no avail.
I have a user that needs my help but the comments have become a storm. I would like to move this ...
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My question incorrectly marked as duplicate
recently I asked a question here WiFi keeps reconnecting when ICS is active on Windows 10 and its been marked as a dupe by mistake
cause even though it has a lot of similarity to USB WiFi Adapter ...
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Question ban: Which questions to improve how
Apparently I have a question ban on superuser.com. This help page says that I should improve my existing questions in order to get out of the question ban.
Which of my questions have a chance of ...
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Question closed because I don't know what commands I can use on this case
I have a question about my Super User post being deleted: Need a command to find and move (and mix) subfolders (and its content) to another subfolder on the same parent folder, all matching specific ...
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Can I see which Answers/Questions count towards a badge?
Can I see which Answers/Questions count towards a badge? E.g. for the badge "Sportsmanship", can I see somewhere which votes counted towards that badge or would the only option be to ...
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Explainer/Refiner/Illuminator - how exactly does it work?
I'm trying to find out how exactly the Explainer/Refiner/Illuminator works:
Edit and answer 1/50/500 question (both actions within 12 hours, answer score > 0)
So far it seems that the edit hast ...
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How do you use the new Markdown to insert images?
Okay, so I wanted to edit and insert an image for someone. I assumed it would be easy to rewrite the Markdown. Until I found out that the Markdown has changed. So how do I write it now?
Also, the help ...
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Do accepted answers count as a "point" towards associated tags?
I know +1 votes count towards your score for associated tags, but I wanted to know if that is true for accepted answers too.
If so, I assume its considered 1 point? Also, if the asker +1 votes the ...
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Why aren't backticks working in comments to get a fixed-width font?
I just posted a comment (see identical problem in the comment below) that contained the text \\?\ in backticks (two backslashes, a question mark, then another backslash.) As you can see here, the ...
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Removing clutter in unclear questions with many clarifying comments
Consider this question where there now exist 6 user edits and 11 comments before the requirements were clear. Is there a process for rewriting the entire question and removing the comments used to ...
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Where would I ask a question about interacting with 'mailman'
I have a question about sending commands to a 'mailman' mailing list manager to make it do something. Would that be appropriate for this site? It's not really about computer software on my computer; ...
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Offering bounty on question with less views
I asked this question which has like 23 views till now. Even with such low view rate I have two close request against the question. I have done my homework, but still may be the users think that my ...
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How can I create just an answer without a question (blog)?
I know this is a question answer forum, but the last 2 years I've been building three systems (2 computers, old and new, running dolphin and a XPenology NAS) and found some very interesting facts. ...
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Is there a way to find out how many comments and questions you have sent
Just out of interest I would like to find out how many comments and questions I have sent over my time on "Super User". I would like to know this because of some results to do with badges.
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In the review queue, what the difference between "recommend deletion" and "delete"?
When I recommend a post for deletion, sometimes after doing so I notice that other users have "Recommended Deletion", and sometimes one or two users simply have "Delete" by their name:
What's the ...
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Not receiving notifications for new messages
For the past few days (I think since the move to the New York data center) I have not been receiving notifications of new messages. If someone @'s me or comments on one of my posts, I get a badge on ...
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Reputation and ability to edit other people’s posts
I see in the FAQ for SU (and MSU) regarding Reputation:
2000 Edit other people’s posts, vote to approve or reject suggested edits
I recall that for the first post I edited (another persons Question), ...
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Change accidental vote
I accidentally down voted an answer (fat fingers on a small phone) and didn't notice until after it was locked. How can I undo my down vote?
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Link redirects from answers?
Not sure if there's a problem... I had a link in this response: How do I convert a .vhd disk image to work with VMWare Fusion 2?
The link was edited out with a claim as too many redirects. I checked ...
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Please make an Autodesk inventor tag and tag the inventor questions with it
I want to ask an Autodesk Inventor question, but there is no such tag. Can someone please create a [autodesk-inventor] tag?
These two questions would need it:
Installing Autodesk Inventor 11 Pro on ...
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Request to reopen 396905 (Identifying UEFI-capable laptops)
396905 was (incorrectly, IMHO) closed because it mistaken for a "what should I buy" thread when in fact it is a completely different "how to identify if a laptop is UEFI-capable from the specs before ...
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Burninate the [tag:region] tag [closed]
region tag seems to have a mixup of unrelated questions.
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Tag Editor badge
For some reason, I had an edit accepted to a tag (two actually) but no badge. Is this a bug, or is there something in badge qualifications that requires more?
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cancelling a vote after a while
I upvoted a question that looked promising but the questioner just abandoned the question not giving any more info and nobody could answer it because they abandoned it. I'd like to remove the 1 vote ...
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Comments on migrated question no longer relevant
This question of mine was migrated from StackOverflow to SuperUser. The comments on it are no longer relevant. Can they be deleted?
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Different concept of 'days ago' used on reputation feed.
As far as I can tell, "1 day ago" doesn't quite mean the same thing on the reputation feed as it does elsewhere, e.g. activity.
On chat, Daniel Beck says:
@PriceChild This one's easy. Rep feed
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Did I ask about Adobe Acrobat here in error?
I am wondering if anyone can help me (perhaps by migration?) find an answer to the question I posed a little over a week ago? It involves changing an Adobe Acrobat pre-packaged template for PDF ...
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SU Retag Request: [cmd] --> [command-line]
All questions tagged cmd are also tagged windows or something similar,
given that there is already a more popular tag command-line shouldn't we just retag all questions?
cmd might be made a synonym ...
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SU Retag Request: [network] --> [networking]
Similar to SU Retag Request: wireless-network --> wireless-networking.
Can we retag network to networking?
Was doing this manually because I saw this first, until I saw it lists 400+ questions. :-(
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Tag merge [freeze] - [freezing]
I'm guessing that there really is no difference between the two...
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How can I find moved question?
I am looking for a question or answer i had provided, but i couldn't find it on superuser.
I guess it was moved somewhere else (i.e. stackoverflow).
How can I search such answers/questions?
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