Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Why doesn't my superuser account show up on the network-wide accounts list?
I am using the same Google account to register for Super User as I did for Stack Overflow, Server Fault, and IT security, but my Super User account doesn't show up on my network-wide profile accounts ...
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Enlightened badge not showing up
I think I have achieved the criteria for the badge on this question, and I have waited about an hour. Is there something that I am missing?
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Make [segfault] a synonym of [segmentation-fault]
I can't propose this tag synonym directly, but I've noticed that segfault should be a synonym of segmentation-fault. Can someone make this change?
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How to undo comment vote
When I inadvertently click to vote up a comment, I realise I cannot click to undo it. Is there a way to undo the comment vote?
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Empty tooltip for non-existing tag
When asking a new question and creating a tag that doesn't exist I get just an empty hover-up box.
I haven't tried to actually post a question with a bogus tag, so I'm not sure if this behaviour ...
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How do you appeal a close decision?
Specifically my question's closure. It's not about mobile phones at all, it's just that I didn't know it was being closed at the time so I had no chance to "defend" it.
Thank you.
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Why can I not change my email address in my profile?
I have recently decided to change the email address that my Gravatar is associated with. In the end, I had to create a new Gravatar account with the different email address. After doing this, I ...
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Logging into SuperUser via mobile phone
I try to log into SuperUser from my mobile phone, but it fails. I can easily browse the pages of SuperUser, but when I click on "login" and then select my OpenID account provider, it doesn't work. Is ...
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The Great [tag-cleanup-request] status-tag cleanup of 2024
Following on from the Great CM status tag cleanup of 2024, we lost our "status-planned" tracking of ongoing cleanup tasks. That's because the planned tag is now considered a process tag, ...
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Is this question from Unix&Linux (closed there) suitable for SuperUser community?
Is this question about a tool for measuring efficiency of filesystems and experienced efficiency/overhead values for types of filesystems (respectively, more in general asking about a tool on Linux, ...
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Rename microsoft-one-outlook to outlook-for-windows
microsoft-one-outlook seems to refer to outlook-for-windows, see Wikipedia.
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I was serial downvoted, please reverse them
Today I asked a question, it received two downvotes and was closed. Fine, I deleted it.
But right after that, my five most recent posts were downvoted within one minute, for no reason at all. The ...
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Have answers been removed from this question?
If I remember correctly, there used to be three answers to my question, Do I need a special cable for this SSD?. One answer was bad and was downvoted. The other two were similar to each other and both ...
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Tag score calculation
I can list all my answers for a certain tag. The list includes the votes, and negative votes already subtracted to my knowledge (in this specific case it's the tag networking). But the score doesn't ...
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I have flagged a question as a duplicate. The flag was marked as "helpful". But the question still hasn't closed
Yesterday (6/9/21), a question was asked: How to remove the new weather info from the taskbar?.
I have flagged this question as an exact duplicate of: How can I disable the “News and Interests” Widget ...
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Question wrongly marked as off-topic
My question How to download a video embedded in any website? was marked as off-topic because they thought I was asking for a product that can solve my problem, but I clearly ask how to do it manually, ...
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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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My cross-site auto-login does not work; where do I look to fix it?
I am active in a handful of sites like superuser and stack overflow. When I find time to come here, I often work on several questions or answers.
I was always annoyed that I can log out all my ...
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In the middle of writing answer on a question when it's closed and losing the answer content?
Scenario
A moderator, review voters, etc. initiate a status change of a question to "closed", "off-topic", and so forth. At the moment of the approved change someone was already in the middle of ...
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Why close a straightforward question about master and slave drives?
This is regarding a question about master and slave drives. By the time Gareth completed an edit, the question was rather straightforward.
Being familiar with the technology, I found the question ...
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Guidelines to request information?
Is there a place to review guidelines and rules for asking questions within this app? Aside from being respectful and courteous of course.
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How can I create a new tag, vsts, for Visual Studio Team Services?
How can I create a new tag, "vsts", for Visual Studio Team Services?
Tried to create, but got told "vst" already exists, and ask in Meta ...
... so here I am ...
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Question which cannot have proper answer
I have a question about my Super User post: Broken suspend-to-ram mode
It appears that the problem I faced in question above is caused by firmware, and not by software, as I thought earlier. Thus, ...
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Question received no rep, but an answer mentioning the question received negative rep; why?
A while back, I asked the question Leading zeros in IPv4 address; is that a no-no by convention or standard?, which in hindsight could possibly have gone on another Stack Exchange, maybe Networking. ...
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How can I login with my account on my wife's computer?
On her computer, my wife is permanently logged into her Google account.
She never uses (or has used) SU.
I want to fix stuff on her computer and access my SU account to ask questions.
I always use my ...
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Why am I requested to log in again before I can post a question even though I have logged in
I had not learned of Super User community until two days ago when my question was migrated from Software community to Super User community. (I did not remember that I had joined in this community 10 ...
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Thanking, and criticizing, moderators for their actions
How can I thank a moderator for their help, and how can I air a criticism of a moderator's actions or behaviour?
I had posts wherein two different moderators intervened.
The first one was very ...
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Question a/ Computer Architecture terminology on-topic?
CPU architectures are still most of the time communicated in terms of "x86" and "x64" as opposed to numbers of bits. I have an idea as to why this is, but I'm not entirely sure. I'd like to ask if ...
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Code block text coloring not working?
So Sometimes my code will highlight properly and other times, it gets no colors or anything. What gives! I can't find anything on this meta that has discussed this aspect of this issue.
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Is a bittorrent question relevant to superuser.com?
I put up a question which got flagged as being off-topic with it being suggested to edit the question and putting it on superuser.com but before doing that, asking here. Could somebody look at it and ...
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How is "How to save an rTorrent session?" not a valid title?
I can't create the question "How to save an rTorrent session?" on superuser. It complains that it is not a real question. How can I fix it?
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How do I ask for clarification on an existing answer if I am very new?
My PC became very slow while booting and I wanted to know why? I google and find this interesting answer
How to diagnose slow booting or logon in Windows?
but somehow the link provided in the answer ...
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Merge [intellij] and [idea] into [intellij-idea]
As you can see, most of the questions tagged idea are also tagged intellij. Also, the full name of the IDE is IntelliJ IDEA. The two tags should be merged. Also, the one other question tagged idea ...
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How to see my pending edits?
Is there a way so I can view my own pending edits?
extra: If the site merges some consecutive edits, will I and my reviewers see the merges the same way?
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Close votes limited to 20 under "review" but can still vote on per question
Yesterday I maxed out my close votes for the day, and in fact still have three hours until the close vote under the review tab opens again. But as I was reading a off topic question, I clicked close ...
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What means "Post Merged (destination)" in the revision history?
Time to post my first question on Meta...
This question has two revisions, where the second one is only 5 minutes newer (9:13 vs. 9:18am). However, when I answered the question some hours later (2:...
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Vote count on linked / related questions
In some questions, the sidebar listing related and linked questions shows vote counts. On other questions it doesnt. Why are they sometimes displayed and sometimes not? Is there some criteria?
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$RECYCLE.BIN question that is not a duplicate marked as a duplicate
Oliver Salzburg♦ marked my question...
How to delete $RECYCLE.BIN folder on external hard disk?
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There is a “$REYCLE.BIN” folder in my external hard drive; can I delete ...
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Merge [advanced-format] and [4k-sectors]
Advanced Format, at least in its current state, specifies sectors of 4096 bytes in size, but questions involving 4K AF drives have been tagged as both advanced-format and 4k-sectors. Can someone ...
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Is it right to VTC for a Windows-8 tag question to dupe with Windows-8-preview tag?
I have just seen Disable charm bar Touchpad shortcut with windows-8 which is somehow similar to How to disable Windows 8 charm? with windows-8-preview.
So now I'm confused little bit for VTC to it ...
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How do you have a question migrated?
How do you have a question migrated to another stack exchange site?
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Serial Upvoting reversed
I just had 110 rep removed from me today, for "Serial Upvoting Reversed". I assume a spammer was upvoting just to make me upset tonight? My meta rep is still higher then my site rep, but I'm sure that ...
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Where can I ask, if I can ask at all, the following question (search for an e-commerce software)
I opened a question on SU, about looking for a self-hosted E-commerce software with advanced importing and exporting capabilites.
Soon after, the question got closed.
Can I ask such a question? If ...
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Unable to talk in chat despite enough reputation
I am no longer able to participate on chat. Starting today (between 2AM and 1PM CET), something got broken.
It clearly recognizes me, as clicking the avatar produces:
But the chat user profile says ...
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What is a grace period for a bounty?
And why is it not described here?
Also, just out of curiosity, when did this come into effect?
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SU About page has 4 mods elected in 2011, the Election page shows 3
At the bottom of the Super User About page, it shows that four moderators were elected in the 2011 Community Moderator Elections (Sathya, DMA57361, nhinkle, & studiohack). However, on the ...
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SU Retag Request: [computers] + [pc] --> [computer] or [pc]
Can a synonym be made for computers and can computer and pc be merged into a single tag?
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SU Retag Request: [partition*] --> [partion(ing)]
Sorry to bother once again, but while evaluating the tags on this question I came up with another one:
partition
partitioning
partition-scheme (Doesn't need a separate tag imo)
disk-partition (...
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SU Retag Request: [applications] --> [software]
applications might benefit from being merged to software.
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Different Reputation showed. Which one is correct?
I´ve got a strange thing going on here. My reputation showed in the bar on top of the site is 714.
I was happy with it until i looked at http://superuser.com/reputation yesterday.
The reputation ...
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