Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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How to know how many edits where made on my question?
Is there a way to know how many edits were made on one of my posts?
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SU Review, how to stop "watching" a tag
On the review page, I selected a tag to see the questions needed review for that specific subject. But now, I can't find a way to go back and see all the tags combined.
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Meta Tag Wikis Can't be Edited [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unable to propose tag wiki
With the addition of tag wiki proposals, it seems as though Meta's language changed despite still not being able to edit tag wikis.
I can see how ...
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Burnination and Synonyms Part III (hopefully the last one)
For burnination:
sell
simple
solidworks (rare misspelling)
student
stuck (worthless as used now)
superuser
subjective
support
system (burned, but replaced with system.exe for those who need it)
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Appeal tag wiki ban?
Is it possible for me to appeal the ban that I have on editing tag wikis? The reason I got the ban is for trying to add the following text to the tag wikis of some tags:
Please make sure that if ...
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More for burnination and synonyms
Burnination:
first
function
general
hardware-selection (the two questions with this tag are closed, and hardware combination seems better anyway; might be better to make them synonyms though)
home (...
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Many questions tagged "ide" should be tagged "pata"
Many of the questions currently tagged "ide" should actually be tagged "pata". ide is for integrated development environments, rather than Integrated Drive Electronics.
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Tags that should never be the only ones on a question
It seems to me that there are some tags that if they are the only ones on a post (or even if they are mentioned at all) pretty much make the question off topic. Perhaps these tags should have a ...
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Suggested tag synonyms
Some tag synonyms that I think should be implemented. There are more, I just didn't go through the whole alphabet yet. Feel free to add to the list.
advertisements->ads
applet->applets
argument->...
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Question closed due to non-question format -- rewritten
I recently had a question closed due to it being labeled as not a real quesiton, so I just rewrote the question and wanted to ask if it could be opened again and also, if the negative score could be ...
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Merging answers of duplicate questions
I know that it says "its answers may be merged with another identical question" for duplicate questions, but I have never seen it actually done.
Is there a chance that this could happen for my answer ...
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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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Why can't I comment on answers to my own question?
Several months ago I was using this site to ask people and I got 90% good answers. In the past I could write a comment about their answers, but now I cannot see comment button.
I can just answer ...
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Incorrect user display of questions on user profile?
I asked a question yesterday here and there were two answerers to it, of which one was deleted (I guess by the author). The question does currently display like this on my profile page:
As you can ...
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Can a user remove a flag that they have set?
Lets say a user posts a question. Another user, based on the questions content, thinks that the question belongs on another StackExchange site, such as WebApps, and flags it. Then the other user edits ...
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Why does the Chat show so much reputation?
I wish that I had 5.9k rep, but I dont, not even combined... (and the badge count only has my superuser badges, not even meta).
What does the 5.9k mean?
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Super User twitter account tweeting meta questions
Finally, we have a Super User twitter account albeit with a el-crappy name ( thanks, twitter!), Still hurrah!
But.... one of the questions that was tweeted, turned out to be a meta question:
I'm ...
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View the year questions are posted and be able to sort questions by votes regardless of year?
I'd like to be able to view the year questions are posted.
And to be able to sort questions by votes regardless of year.
I see questions in the right hand side mention how many years ago they were ...
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How do you ignore a certain user on Super User?
So, I want to ignore questions for certain users from my Questions/Unanswered feed. How do I do that?
The main reason for this kind of feature is that not everything that annoys me is against the ...
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Newsletter top question bug
I have just received the newsletter, and one of the top questions was How to analyze a link to figure out the actual link. It said I had answered the question.
It's nice I guess, but my answer was ...
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View close votes
Is there a way to view a list of all the close votes that I have cast (similar to viewing the flags that I have sent)?
Its not really that important, but I was just curious if there was a way.
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Why do I see my own suggested tag edits in the edit queue?
I've been creating some tag excerpts, but somehow they've made it into my review queue.
Of course, I can't accept or reject them, they're just there.
Is this a bug or by design?
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Can we get rid of the red "new" button beside blog?
I know it hasn't been up for long, but would there be a way to hide it? I figured once I visited the blog it would disappear, but it didn't.
Could we make it one of the "popup at the top" things? ...
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inserting a line break in a comment [duplicate]
Is this possible? It gets annoying when I want to address two different things in one comment (or two different people) and it all gets crammed together.
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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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Moderator feature suggestion: Restrict comments for a particular Answer
Feature suggestion
Add a new option for moderators to temporarily and/or permanently restrict new comments (e.g., disallow all new comments, or require moderator approval for new comments, by all ...
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How is a question defined as “Too Localised”?
This question covers an earlier deleted meta question regarding configurations in a more general way.
The official reason for closing a question as "Too Localised" is:
This question is unlikely to ...
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Where can I ask the question about only for mobile?
I need some software for my mobile and I know I can't ask it on SU because it's not related with PCs in some way.
So for mobiles, where can I ask questions? Does the Stack Exchange Network have any ...
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Test 5: Communication with stackauth.com – failed
i use Chrome and notscripts, recently get a failure to authorize with stackexchange and cannot chat with a moderator anymore.
http://chat.stackexchange.com/help
Is this a problem with the recent ...
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Can the same user get two or more Enthusiast or Fanatic badges?
As far users can get two or more of Nice Question or Nice answear badges, does Enthusiast or Fanatic badges works the same way? Which badges are avaiable to get more than one time?
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Make timetracking a synonym of the time-tracking tag
I think tags time-tracking and timetracking should be synonyms because their difference is only hyphen
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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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Putting heat on the cooling/heat/overheat/thermal tag synonyms
The tags cooling, heat, overheat, and thermal seem to be synonymous.
Personally, I would set cooling as the master tag, but I wanted to leave that up for discussion.
For all I know it would be ...
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Could new users get "Beta" badge?
Today I was looking over the badges page for the badges that I could (maybe one day) get. I noticed that "Beta" badge (that is acquired by users that participated on the beta phase of superuser) could ...
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Preview does not accurately represent code
<pre> tags are lined up with my bullet indents in the code preview, but not in the answer.
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Possible spam user "myopic.bones"
A large number of posts from myopic.bones seem to be spam. They include answers to the following questions:
Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work?
Limit Chrome's bandwidth
how to limit ...
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How often do you get the robot prompt? I've gotten it every time for the past week now. . .
I've noticed that I get prompted and asked if I'm a robot every time recently. I'm curious if this was due to my machine or the site flagging me. And this has been on multiple machines, on different ...
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Calculating accept rate
Do open questions with no answers affect my accept rate? I can't calculate it on my own because my rate isn't displayed anywhere I can see, but that's probably another question.
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Clarification of on-topic status [closed]
I don't want to pick on Nestor here, as I think his question is good, but I'm questioning whether it is on-topic.
Let me clarify that I'm not complaining about flag weight, I promise. However, I ...
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Stats for registered and active users?
Today, seeing the "89,480 questions" I just wondered myself why "# Registered users" or "# Active users" (Active means here as the users that logged this month for example) does not appear on Super ...
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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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question closed as exact duplicate, but the referred question appears to be only loosely related
My question was closed as exact duplicate 11 days ago:
batch-rename filenames with numbers to sort alphabetically
For some reason i did not receive any notification about this, so I noticed it just ...
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Suspicious downvote pattern
I have noticed some suspicious downvotes on my questions recently.
Jul 25
-2 23:44 downvote XML, XHTML, SGML and HTML
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-2 51 mins ago downvote GUI editor for editing djvu ...
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Do questions on search engine optimization belong here? If not, where do they belong?
E.g. I want to ask a question like: http://www.quora.com/SEO/If-you-re-use-your-Internet-name-on-numerous-sites-is-there-a-way-to-make-your-name-on-one-site-appear-before-your-name-on-another-site
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Re-open request for question 312922
What Can I do to Improve Cable Link/Signal Quality?
The author specifically mentions that he has internet connection problems due to this issue. Finally, I present this clause from the SuperUser FAQ ...
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Some images from i.stack.imgur.com images only show an error message
Some answers in How do you get a shell on a Mac? have images that only show an error from imgur saying: "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available. imgur.com"
Is that ...
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Is link posting broken if the link includes a caret?
I think including links is broken if the valid URL includes a caret symbol ^. See as below this link to Wolfram Alpha for computing 2^25:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2^25
It is a valid URL ...
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Invalid flag but Closed question?
I just flagged this question, got invalid flag and some time later the question was closed? I got -10 flag weight to a closed question? Could someone verify?
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How should we treat questions involving mobile computers like barcode scanners that use Windows Mobile?
UPDATE - I found this proposal over on area51.
It suggests a StackExchange site for Windows Mobile. Go follow it if you want to see this!
I've been using a computer like this at work for the last ...
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Can I add an SE OpenID to my existing profile?
Due to some complications signing in this morning with my Google account, I would like to register for a Stack Exchange OpenID account and add it to my profile. Is this possible? If so, how?
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