Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account message in stackoverflow
Why am I getting the following message in stackoverflow ?
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account.
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My email is not considered valid
My email, at least on super user is not loger considered valid. It contains 10 letters after which is 1 number, at symbol (@) and gmail.com. It was considered valid before.
Any idea why does it ...
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Merging macbook* tags on SU
On Superuser, there are two tags for the same subject :
macbookpro, with 122 hits
macbook-pro, with 3 hits
That would be nice is someone could merge these two tags to macbook-pro (with a hyphen) I ...
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Superuser: retag-request for 64-bit, 64bit and maybe x64
On superuser "64-bit" and" 64bit" tags should be aliased into one or the other.
"x64" is similar, but may be a slightly different animal for some people, being specific to the mainstream AMD ...
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How to dispute a rejected edit?
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/1185211
My edit got rejected with “This edit deviates from the original intent of the post. Even edits that must make drastic changes should strive to ...
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Is my redacting potentially harmful links the "right" action?
I've redacted the links in this question, because
they did not link directly to content, but to a website from which to download the content
the website in question opened advertisement popups with ...
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Recent Win10 v20H2 update made comment's italicized monospaced content a cursive-like font?
Anyone else experiencing this and how do I change it, as modifying the font settings in Chromium-based Edge has no effect and the same output occurs in FireFox? I'm unsure what update could have ...
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Asked valid question, was having discussion in comments, question was suddenly closed with no comment to indicate why
New user logs in through RDP on Windows System and Public\Desktop items don't show up on their desktop?
This is a problem that I'm encountering all the time in my environment.
Question was closed ...
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Something wrong with this question
Honestly speaking I feel this is most detailed (with full of research)question that I have ever asked
I feel it’s not getting deserved attention
Maybe because people feel They are aiding theft etc, ...
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Make [procmon] a synonym of [process-monitor]?
The tag description for process-monitor is:
Process Monitor is an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity.
while procmon is:
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Are questions related to (Mozilla) Pocket software on topic?
Giving that even after reading other online resorces such as:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket_(service)
https://getpocket.com/developer/docs/overview
I still would have some concrete/factual ...
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Why have the review audits not been fixed? [duplicate]
I try to volunteer some of my time to help out SuperUser SE and our community, but the review audits that wouldn't pass an audit themselves are still in the system.
For example, I just stumbled into ...
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Question incorrectly marked as duplicate
I recently asked https://superuser.com/questions/930988/where-does-chrome-store-credit-card-data, which was closed by a moderator, stating that it's duplicate of Google Chrome view saved form data.
I ...
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Synonym-ize [sum] into [worksheet-function]
There are 35 questions with sum and only one that isn't about a spreadsheet application. I suggested the synonym for worksheet-function because I don't find sum to be very useful. If it goes through, ...
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Request to reopen question 722643/76571
This question was closed as a duplicate today. Upon close inspection, it is clearly not a duplicate of the question indicated.
The old question concerns finding and replacing values. The new question ...
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Complaints about new (December 2013) interface design
Eight hours ago, the top stripe of the Super User window showed my name.
When I hovered the mouse over my name, a convenient information/control box popped up:
(...
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Filter out SU questions where votes are negative
I'm getting SU questions with "https://superuser.com/questions?sort=newest&pagesize=50&page=1"
Is there a way to filter out 'silly' questions which were voted down from url above?
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Are questions about recommending plug ins or add on off topic?
I know software recommendations are off topic and to me, an add on / plug in is software but, not sure if that is true for all?
For example, "please recommend a plug in / add on for Chrome so I can ...
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Are tablet questions off topic? [duplicate]
The FAQ says the following is on topic
computer hardware,
computer software, or
personal and home computer networking
and this is not
programming and software development,
video games ...
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Tag clean up request - [repeating]
There is a repeating tag.
It doesn't seem to be very useful, almost a meta tag.
It's only on 16 questions (at the time of writing) so should be easy to clean up.
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Merge [nvidia-geforce] and [geforce]
nvidia-geforce - 119 questions tagged.
geforce - 3 questions tagged.
These tags are identical, please merge them.
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Merge [acer-aspire-one] and [aspire-one]
acer-aspire-one - 40 questions tagged.
aspire-one - 2 questions tagged.
They're identical, please merge them.
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Please use [modern-ui] instead of [metro] for the moment, Metro conflicts
Please use Modern UI for the moment, because Metro was a code name that conflicts with Metro AG.
Feel free to update questions with the new naming as you go around making our Windows 8 part of the ...
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Request to reopen question 461022
I've made drastic changes to this closed question How does the CPU and GPU interact in displaying computer graphics?. Since it was a quite popular one with more than 300 views in just a couple of ...
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Meta participation
I was looking at the Moderator Election page for the last election, and I noticed that each candidate has a Meta participation section, showing how many times their question or answer has be up/down ...
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StackExchange widget links to 404
I commented on a question some days ago.
Recently the StackExchange widget showed a red icon, clicking it showed
comment on
grep results in putty
(windows 7) terminal change depending
on width of ...
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I occasionally get a message in Superuser that it works better with Java script enabled.
I occasionally get a message in Superuser that it works better with Java script enabled. However, when I go to Javascript, it is already enabled.
Why would this happen?
I'm using Windows XP and ...
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Merge tags on superuser [virtualmachine], [virtual-machine], and [virtualization]
I noticed a similar question here, but it seems nothing has been done... On superuser there are tags for virtualmachine and virtual-machine. I think these two at the least should be merged, if not ...
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How do I get rid of the close votes?
Why are notches are different on 8 pin cable and the video card? has accumulated three completely bogus closing votes: people think it's EPS vs PCIe 8 pin but it's not. It's just not. I posted a ...
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Error Uploading Images: Limited to 50 Megapixels for gif image
I encountered an error message stating that image uploads are restricted to 50 megapixels on the a post however I thought the only limit was an image of any size <2MB. My image that is a gif is ...
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“Please do not vote to close spam.” Why?
On a recent piece of spam, a user (Ramhound) stated:
“Please do not vote to close spam.“
Why? Should we just downvote and close as spam? What is the harm in voting to close as off topic? Wouldn’t ...
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Could someone review my post regarding product data?
I have a question about my Super User post: How does the WD_BLACK SN770 2TB connected to PCI 3.0 NVMe 1.3 compare to the Samsung EVO 970 Plus 2TB SSD? Heat, power at idle, speed at 80% full?
I'm not ...
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Make less visible or completely hide ignore tagged questions [closed]
It seems a new change was made to SuperUser, where questions with tags on my ignore list are now almost as visible as regular questions. Only the title has a slightly different color.
This completely ...
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When I try to vote to close this question as a duplicate, the site tells me it doesn't have an upvoted answer, but it does. Is this a bug?
See these two questions:
whenever I start my windows laptop, after laptop is opened terminal is automatically opened and inside terminal its written -, and
On windows startup terminal opens ...
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Improvements in the reopening system needed? [closed]
When a question gets closed, it can be asked for reopening, but in my experience that is very hard to happen.
Even if after editing it shows again in the main page, the tag "[closed]" acts ...
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Are questions about Chromebook apps off topic?
I'm baffled at the closure of Distinguishing between Chrome OS apps and Android apps.
How is this about anything other than "computer software and personal and home computer networking," two ...
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Not sure why closed as "opinion based"
I have a question about my Super User post: ACPI thermal zone driver in Windows 10. Not always available
My post has factual information we have found and possibility of factual answers to the ...
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Question closed as duplicate - reopen request
This is not my question, and I believe it's NOT a duplicate:
How do you edit Windows10 Directory Junctions (links to folders) from Windows Explorer?
The question in question (h3h3) is asking about a ...
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Why was this hardware-recommendation question closed as off-topic, and how could I improve it?
I have a hardware-related question. I want to know whether and how Thunderbolt 3 connectivity can be added to my PC setup.
This answer says that questions regarding computer hardware can be asked on ...
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Why is this hardware-related question off-topic here? [duplicate]
I have a hardware-related question. I want to know whether and how Thunderbolt 3 connectivity can be added to my PC setup.
This answer says that questions regarding computer hardware can be asked on ...
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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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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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Why was my question (relating to consumer electronics) migrated here?
I have a question about my Super User post: Do Ethernet over HDMI injectors exist and if so what are they called?
This is something I have always found a little awkward about StackExchange in general,...
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No feedback on deleted answer
I was reading a question, and I thought about an answer.
Then, I noticed that an answer was already posted to the question, which had the information that I was thinking about.
Then, I noticed that ...
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Merging multi part answer for a question?
If there is a multiple part answer for question what would be the best way to merge them?
On the question Is there a way to search for files by hash value? there are two answers by the user ...
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Document and eventually merge report and reporting
The tags report and reporting don't have any documentation and are thus quite ambiguous. They might be synonyms.
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I asked a question and accepted an answer too quickly
I recently asked a question that seemed to be quite difficult to answer. I got only one answer, which I approved because it seemed to do exactly what I wanted it to do. When I later started ...
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Why doesn't my avatar/profile pic show on my activity?
See my answer here https://superuser.com/a/1091983/30982
It used to show up and stopped showing at some point.
https://superuser.com/users/30982/elijah-lynn
update: Adding screenshot.
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Find all external URLs from my own posts
How can I utilize data.stackexchange to list all external URLs from own posts on SU?
Background: After reading "I estimate 10% of the links posted here are dead. How do we deal with them?" I tried to ...
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Difference between "tab=noanswers" | "questions?sort=unanswered" | "answers:0"
I see at least 3 different ways to view unanswered questions. And they all show different results.
tab=noanswers » 37417 hits
https://superuser.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=noanswers
questions?sort=...
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