Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Want to contribute useful answer to old question, but has low quality lock despite only 3 answers
Recently, I've developed a solution for bulk searching excel spreadsheets for keywords, after doing research on various sites, including superuser, and finding there was no real universal solution, I ...
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Why was this First Post deleted even if it does not deserve deletion?
I was reviewing First Posts today and stumbled on this answer as a review audit. To me, it seems like such an answer would be allowed as:
it isn't spam or offensive,
it is an answer, as it eventually ...
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Question tagged as (maybe) a duplicate
I asked this question. A note of a type I'm not familiar with now appears at the top:
This question may already have an answer here:
How do I mask the Firefox browser signature? 4 answers
I didn'...
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Review "This post is locked"
I had a problem when trying to edit a new users post in reviewing. Any time I attempted it said "this post is locked". Anyone know why?
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Help me tag my question?
I'm not sure what I should tag my question with, so I am hoping that I can find someone to retag it: https://superuser.com/questions/499860/sqlfiddle-where-can-i-see-the-result-of-my-query.
I also ...
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How to select upvote arrow for a comment in Stack Exchange using Windows 8 tablet?
I am unable to select the upvote arrow for a comment on Stack Exchange sites using my Windows 8 Surface tablet. It seems that there is no equivalent to mouseover via a tablet. Is this currently ...
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Super User is not displaying my correct reputation?
My stats as seen on stackoverflow
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 90 rep 10
Programmers 1 rep 2
stats as seen on SuperUser
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 80 rep 10
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When I go back to the Ask Question page after logging in, I'm logged out?
Created a question. Then found out I'm not logged in. Tried logging in using the link at the bottom. Clicked on MyOpenID. Was redirected to MyOpenID. Got it wrong. Got back. Click on "other options". ...
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Gaming question - Is this question acceptable on SuperUser?
I posted the following question on the Gaming site:
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48467/stuttering-audio-and-graphics-in-pc-games
Topic was closed and I guess deemed off topic, even ...
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SU Retag Request: [internet] <-> [networking] <-> [connection]
We might want to consider migrating between the similar and perhaps duplicate tags:
web
internet
networking (I proposed network -> networking here)
connection
All questions of internet could be ...
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How can I improve my first question?
I have a question about my Super User post: How to create a PXEboot for tails OS?
I'm new to this site I find very helpful and of very good quality.
How can I improve my first posted question?
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Answers to questions but no acceptance or votes
I've been trying to work up a decent points score on Super User, but it's very difficult. Not necessarily because I can't write answers, but because there seem to be a very high proportion of people ...
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Reputation decreased but not shown in history
I'm pretty sure yesterday I had rep. 1,597. Today, I have 2 points less, 1,595. I wanted to make sure that I didn't mess up with some answer and see which one was it, so I went to my profile and ...
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Did I just get serial-upvoted?
I know that my title might be laughable but it just seems very odd that all those upvotes came in at once.
Was there a lag in the notification system?
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Add google-cloud-platform, google-compute-engine tags
Can someone please add the following tags to Super User:
google-cloud-platform
google-compute-engine
I noticed several questions with these tags on Stack Overflow are being closed or put on hold ...
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Is there any way to provide feedback to proposers and reviewers of editors?
A user kindly proposed this edit, and two other users approved it:
https://superuser.com/revisions/308130/5
Despite the facts that it contains erroneous formatting (it puts the code backticks around ...
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Error when trying to access a question
I get the following error whenever I try to access a specific question:
EDIT: I can access the question again normally now. Was there a temporary hiccup on the server?
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Should my question be migrated to Super User or not?
I asked this question. Should it be migrated to this site since it's about drivers and hardware or should it stay on unix.stackexchange.com?
I didn't know where to ask it, I picked a place randomly.
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Undelete own question [duplicate]
I just deleted my own question
Create Recovery Console disk
Can I undelete this? I have been able to undelete answers before. Below an answer is a button for undelete. I am looking for a similar ...
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upvoting and reputation
I was under the impression that upvotes on an answer would yield reputation; However, I have noticed that I have received two upvotes on an answer, but I did not receive reputation. Also, I noticed ...
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How do I associate an earlier username (not OpenID) with my current OpenID login?
I added an answer to a superuser question some time ago using a name entry rather than an OpenID. (Actually, I think the original question was moved from Stack Overflow to superuser.)
Since then, I ...
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Flagging statistics omissions
The picture below shows my question.
426 = 417 + 8 + 1
3 != 2
7 != 3 + 1
As far as I know, there are a few things that can happen to flags.
They are marked helpful
They are marked disputed
They are ...
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How is this question about resolution off-topic?
I have asked a question about Upschaling and Pixel Replication
I have frequently heard that it is better to have a display resolution
with the resolution of the content you want to display on the ...
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How the heck did “Community” user/bot close this dupe question? [duplicate]
This question is a question I voted to close because the solution was a hunch I suggested in the comments. The original poster confirmed my hunch and I then voted to close as dupe as a result.
Okay, ...
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Request to reopen question 986199
My question on the main site: How much data (MB) does a one-hour Zoom call use for each participant? was closed for being "not about computer hardware or software".
According to the FAQ (What topics ...
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Need to ask this question. Where do I ask this?
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I have a HP Touchpad with Windows 10 Home Edition. I forgot the admin password. Now I cannot do system restore. After I reboot and hit F2, it takes me to a system information page. I do not see an ...
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Why is my firewall question off-topic?
Question is Block TCP/UDP high-latency connections
I thought it clearly fits "personal and home computer networking" category, as listed in Help Center.
Other questions on intersection of gaming and ...
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Why is this question downvoted so much?
Why could be a likely reason that this question is being downvoted so much? I tried my best to improve the question (in the Update) but I am still not sure whether this helps.
Is there a way to ...
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Recommended file hosting service
I understand that sharing personal file host links shouldn't be endorsed, but there are instances when this is mandatory.
The website hosting the file in my question is closed and Internet Archive's ...
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Questions I asked on Super User are appearing on other websites [duplicate]
I asked my question on Super User but when I search on Google I found some other website showing the same question by me or asked by some other user. These are on:
bighow.org/42237765-...
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Why is Helpful flag count in moderator election different from my profile
I did happen to find that Is there any particular reason why the flag counter on my moderator election nomination is different from what the flag counter on my profile says? has an answer that states ...
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Non-duplicate is marked as duplicate
This question How can I export & import firefox addons settings is marked as duplicate of this Software to export firefox addons but it is not, maybe it should be unmarked?
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Why isn't shell syntax highlighting working? [duplicate]
I've been all over Meta Stack Overflow and the help pages, and frankly I'm just tired of looking now. I've tried <!-- language: shell --> and <!-- language: sh -->, but I can't seem to get ...
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How do I change my stackexchange login email?
I had signed up with an account. But i do not have access to that anymore. I need to change the login id of my stackexchange account.
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Why was this question put on hold?
Yesterday, I had asked this question: What features are available in Windows 8 Single Language?
It instantly gathered a lot of downvotes, and later was put on hold, citing:
"This question is not ...
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Where does a users rep on meta.superuser.com come from? [duplicate]
It's not associated with any other stackexchange account and my current rep doesn't match what it should be given my history.
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Get rid of product-rec tag
product-rec looks to be a good candidate for deletion, or do we keep it around as a match for software-rec and hardware-rec?
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Make [blue-ray] a synonym of [blu-ray] and [bluray]
bluray is already a synonym of blu-ray, so why not make blue-ray a synonym as well?
(Hope no-one creates blueray!)
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Is the following question eligible for the Windows 8 challenge?
This is a particularly specific question, but I hope someone can help. I posted this question five days ago about Windows 8. I had no idea about the challenge, but now I'm wondering if it was posted a ...
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Re-open request
I asked this question: Switching between non-suspended apps (with alt-tab?) which got closed as duplicate.
The orignal question though only details how to switch applications, not now to switch ...
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Can I move/duplicate a question to another Stack site? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I request to move a question to a different Stack Exchange site?
I have a question on this site that may as well work at, say, Ask Different. Is it possible to ...
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How to add a code block following a numbered or ordered list [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can not use code tag
Just a little quirk I noticed when using the Editor.
This is bad:
This is good:
Alternatively, you have to insert a horizontal rule (---) between the list ...
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What happened to the log out link? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where is the 'logout' link?
Where did the logoff link go on the Stack Overflow sites?
I don't see it anymore.
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Why do certain commenters take a rude tone with new users?
I saw this question: Video Player code (JavaScript, HTML5 etc), and I thought it might be good to give the person a way to solve the problem, even though it isn't on topic for this website. I've ...
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Should we reconsider changing the minimum rep to upvote?
There's a fundamental problem here now that stackoverflow is branching to all these different specialized sites and that problem is that my reputation doesn't carry over.
This is an issue because I'...
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Why are my questions judged as low quality?
When I write questions on Super User, I often find that I am rejected when I click submit after typing a paragraph; including my previous research on the subject, and so on.
It says that my question ...
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Why 1 rep users allowed to downvote?
There is a guy who lost it completely. He has 1 rep (seems it doesn't go any lower than 1).
His last 'answers' on superuser are extremely offensive and do not add any value to the site. Why is he ...
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Why Such A Small Characters?
Using Firefox 9.0.1 and constantly view SuperUser like this (you can open image in tab or window to zoom-in):
Any ideas why?
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Proposed resolution : Quoting cannot be called plagiarism
Proposed resolution : A quote which is fully accredited and formatted as a quote, is not plagiarism.
This definition is in line with all the world's dictionaries and all the world's legal sources.
Why ...
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Valid answer to question downgraded and deleted with no feedback
A user answered on my below question and the answer was deleted like it was a wrong answer.
I doubt that is that the spirit of this platform.
How dogmatic and frustrated has someone to be, to judge ...
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