Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Can I embed a YouTube video in a question or answer?
Over on gaming.stackexchange.com I often see YouTube videos embedded in questions and answers. Here is an example.
I see in the source that there is not special markup, just the youtube.com url alone ...
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Is my Stack Exchange account broken? I can't login.
When I tried to use SuperUser.com (the main site) just now, I realized that I'm not logged in. So, I tried to login, but the password recovery option reports errors that my eMail addresses aren't ...
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Did the default font of question titles change recently?
I may be wrong but I think the font face of Super User question titles has changed or become bold recently. Am I right or is Firefox playing games on me?
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Bug: Vote down after voting up
If I vote up a question or answer and later decide to vote it down (if I changed my mind or it was a mistake), it votes it down by 2 points.
This means that after the upvote the votes are 1, after ...
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Dark hacking? My account name got changed from "Randolf Richardson" to "Complicated see bio"
My account name is "Randolf Richardson" but somehow my account name was changed to "Complicated see bio." The description was also changed (it used to begin with "I am a spam-fighter ... I'm also ...
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When people give good answers to the wrong question
I asked this question last night just before going to bed. In summary, the question was "Why does my browser ask me before it will make an HTTPS connection?"
I've got two answers now, but both have ...
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Request for reopen question 352656
It was closed as off-topic by being mobile question, but in fact it is an windows software question to find a software to handle bulk installation/setup for several similar devices.
I rewrote the ...
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Where should I migrate this question to?
UltraEdit FTP not working with DreamHost is not really about a problem with UltraEdit, but about a configuration problem at an ISP.
What is an appropriate site to migrate this question to?
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Where has the comment thread on Page File stuff gone to?
On What's wrong with disabling the Windows page file? Mehrdad and I had a non-heated discussion on page files, is it still available to us so that we continue on it in chat? I also might need it ...
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Do I get email notifications for favorited questions? [duplicate]
I would like to track questions which I don't have anything to contribute to.
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Recommendation tag synonym of Recommendations
The tags recommendation and recommendations seem to be synonyms. Unfortunately I do not have the required score in these tags to propose a synonym. I figured this was the next best thing :)
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How can I get an update on an old question?
How can I get an update on an old question? For instance, this one. I'd like to hope that there have been updates in the software available to someone with this question.
I guess my real question ...
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Can I award a bounty on an already-accepted answer?
A few days ago, I asked a question and quickly received an answer...
What setting will convince Windows menus to appear to the right, instead of left?
Because the answer was received quickly, I ...
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Please help reopen this shutdown question?
How can I identify the culprit of my slow Windows shutdown?
This is a real problem and I can answer this question so it has enough specifications.
We have no idea how your system is set up and ...
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Update the FAQ to disallow any product recommendation questions
Foreword added at +2/-1:
To make this clear: As far as I can tell (and I quote a diamond moderator below), this is already official moderation policy on this site. I just want to have this added ...
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Are software-specific questions okay?
I checked out the FAQ and searched Meta. Couldn't figure it out.
I'm wondering how to change the default save format in Notepad++. It's not in the docs. What I typically get when I ask Q&A ...
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Is it possible to paste an image from the clipboard into a question or an answer?
When asking a question involving system message boxes I try to insert an image of the message box in the body of the question, instead of just quoting a long message (example).
However, the process ...
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Why was my question relating to the speed of the Mac Appstore in China closed as "too localized, etc."?
You can see my question here. I asked about whether the Mac Appstore was generally slow in China (or if it is just my connection). It was closed for being
unlikely to ever help any future visitors; ...
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Create a synonym [osx-10.7] -> [osx-lion]
Our OS X tags usually use the version names instead of the numbers.
osx-10.7 should therefore be a synonym for → osx-lion, just like lion is.
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Can moderators move and change comments?
In this question What is a good password manager that works well with Chrome? somebody (I don't remember the name) answered my question. I responded with a comment. Now I see that answer and my ...
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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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Please burninate multiple tag
multiple does no good and brings in multiple! problems.
Please burninate it.
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How do I block a user from superuser?
Is there a way to block a user I do not want reading my questions?
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How can a question be protected by Community? Why is the date format different there?
I don't understand the following screenshot I took a moment ago:
How can Community, and not a named moderator, protect something?
Why is the date and time format in the protected message ...
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How do I protect a question?
Today I got to 15,000 reputation. Neat-o, I got a little notification that I could now protect questions!
Now, let's try this! Go to any question, click the "Protect" link.
… but …
Where is the ...
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Why is the "noise or pointless" close option still enabled here?
So why do we still have "noise or pointless" as a close option on Meta Super User (and Meta Server Fault) and nowhere else? I've just noticed that the "not a real question" option is missing.
They ...
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How can I insert a picture in a Super User question?
I am trying to insert a picture in a Super User question. How can I do that?
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What is the purpose of closing, when compared to deletion?
With me being a relative newbie to Super User, I am trying to understand how the system works.
As per the SU FAQ, questions have to meet certain standards, and that low quality ones will be closed. I ...
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Where is the logout link on Super User?
Where is the logout link on Super User?
I read it is in the user profile but I can't see it.
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Conflicting edits are allowed. Warning needed?
When a user starts editing a post while another user is also editing, the edits of first committer is lost, since the last commit overwrites the previous ones.
Happened in this answer. See the ...
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How can I move a question to another SE site that isn't on this list?
I see I can flag my own question and click as off-topic to be able to move it to another site but I only see a few sites in the list:
In my case, I want to move a question from Super User to the ...
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Long list of probably worthless questions
Long list of posts was generated by running a program over the data dump for superuser. Unfortunately, the data is a bit old, and some of the questions have been removed since then. When I tried to ...
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Super Contest Time Frame [closed]
Quoting the announcement blog post from August 19th:
This contest will be going on for the next two weeks starting Monday the 29th at 00:00 UTC!
The 29th was five days ago.
The announcement both ...
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Users with less than 2k rep cannot edit meta posts
I've edited a number of posts this week, using suggested edits because I don't have 2k on SU yet. It just occurred to me that MSU might also have some posts in need of cleanup, so I came by to check.
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Error with question preview
My question if you click "edit" and look at the preview you'll see that it is very different from the actual view. In the preview you see a hyperlinked but when you go to the actual question, you ...
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Old User accounts deleted?
I registered on superuser.com and posted a couple of answers under the account:
https://superuser.com/users/8954/lazlow
However, today I visited the site again - having not logged in for a few months ...
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Why was the question about the difference between an Intel i7 and Xeon processor closed?
Are there noticeable differences in Intel i7 and Xeon 5400 chipset family? [closed]
Initially, I may have phrased the question incorrectly but was essentially getting to the primary question of the ...
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Can question 307725 please be reopened
I am a little confused. I think my question 307725 was incorrectly closed by a moderator.
The question refers to the use of the Kindle app on Windows. Surely that is acceptable?
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Flag weight doesn't grow up any more after crossing 3000 reputation [closed]
I've now got 3k reputation, acquiring the "cast close and reopen questions" privilege.
Since then, I don't know if any of my flags to close questions have been marked valid or not as my flag weight ...
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What Privileges Are Available in Meta Super User?
Unlike Stack Overflow Meta (and the main Super User site), Super User Meta does not show privileges available to users when hovering over the username. Are there any plans to add this feature, or ...
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SuperUser renders oddly in Firefox, truncating question titles
I came to SuperUser.SE for the first time today and this site, unlike all the other SE sites I've used, renders unhelpfully for me in Firefox:
As you can see, I have turned off Stylish and ...
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Reason for flags declined?
I had ~20 flags declined, and I do not know why. In addition, I posted to the "Ask a SU mod" chatroom why and did not hear back (hence me posting here).
Why were these flags declined?
EDIT: As a ...
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Request to reopen question 329904
I would like to request to reopen: What are threads, and what do they do in the processor?
This question is perfect for SuperUser SE. Computer hardware question that isn't related to buying ...
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Should humorous/funny questions be deleted from Super User?
I was browsing through some recently deleted questions, and found this one:
What is your most spectacular or interesting death of a computing
device?
What is your most spectacular or ...
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Why was my question about "Intentions and security risks of AIM bots" closed?
I've recently made a question at SuperUser about the intentions and security risks of AIM bots and it was downvoted and closed as Not a real question. I've browsed the site guidelines and I'm not ...
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Vox Populi badge is missing from the Vote Up page
Vox Populi badge is missing from the Vote up questions and answers information page.
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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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Are linked images automatically updated to StackExchange's imgur account?
Are linked images automatically updated to StackExchange's imgur account? I noticed many of the linked images within questions and answer are hosted at i.sstatic.net. If not, then how can I upload ...
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Request to reopen question 216839
I believe this question was closed by mistake. There is enough information to answer the question. I also edited to clean it up a little. Honestly, it really didn't need it. Now it looks slightly more ...
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Why votes on question don't change the tag vote count in the User Profile?
When you ask or answer a question the tags of such question appear in your profile, as people vote your answers the tag score on your profile increases/decreases.
Why doesn't it do the same for when ...
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