Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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What are the criteria for quality standards? Or... How do I get Super User to accept my question?
It seems a rather silly question to ask, but I'm attempting to ask a question on the location of wallpaper files on Windows XP. As always, I've explicitly stated my OS, very specifically spelled out ...
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Why can't I register on SuperUser without OpenID?
I left the "register" window open for two days and it never completed.
How can I register without using an OpenID?
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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 tag merge request: [install] related
Can the following tag groups on SuperUser be merged?
[install] (x239), [installation] (x393),
[installing] (x4), [installed] (x1).
[installer] (x48), [installers] (x2).
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Please align the Excel tags
We lost the battle on excel already, so now it's labeled microsoft-excel, but I see there is still confusion with the version specific tags.
microsoft-excel-2002
microsoft-excel-2003 excel-2003
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Trouble viewing questions with a specific tag - hotkeys in my case
I'd like to view all questions tagged with "hotkeys" but it says something about no questions with an active bounty.
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Maximum voting bug?
I always tend to hit my maximum vote cap of 40 every day. They are not spam votes, but actual votes for good questions and answers as I tend to spend a good part of my day on the site.
Now, as one ...
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Mysterious +5 reputation
After perusing SuperUser I came over here to Meta and checked my profile. I noticed I had mysteriously gained +5 reputation putting me up to 106. This is strange because I haven't asked any questions ...
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What happens to flag weight when 2 users flag the same answer?
What happens if I flag an answer (or question) and another user does it at the same time (before the flag is addressed by a mod)?
If it's for a valid reason and the post is deleted (moderated) - the ...
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Question incorrectly marked as a duplicate...
I just posted this question:
How can I control my Mac remotely?
It specifically asks how I can remotely control my Mac.
It was subsequently closed and marked as an "exact duplicate" of this ...
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Why do old questions without any apparent activity get marked as active?
Why is it that some old questions will show recent activity yet when looking at the question page, nothing indicates any change?
For example, How to combine with openvpn, dynamic-ip? has its last ...
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Do comment upvotes affect your rep?
When your comment is upvoted, does it increase your reputation or does it not have any effect on it?
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Why am I having difficulty getting specific answers?
First off, I am wholly prepared to accept responsibility for vagueness in my questions. As such I want to clear any up. As yet, they are not apparent to me. As such, I'd like to request better ...
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Are user-level troubleshooting questions appropriate?
Questions like: When Abode Reader plugin attempts to open web documents in IE8, sometimes a blank dialog box appears and the document fails to open.
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What happened to my question
I asked a question last night about having lost a domain controller without a backup, and trying to recover access to my user info.
But I can't find any record of the question at all, nor any ...
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Retag/synonym request: "webbrowser" -> "browser"
It seems like the webbrowser (5 questions) tag needs to be merged into and become synonymous with browser (702 questions) (per the definition of the latter tag). I'd do it manually, but I can't ...
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Why do comments usually get removed from Questions?
For what reasons do comments usually get removed from questions?
What is meant by channel id > 100 in 802.11?
I just disagree with this question being moved from Security.SE to Super User. Doesn'...
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unable to get code block formatted right
look at this answer, at the bottom there is a C code block, I tried formatting with the code sample button, manually, and nothing works, it looks all weird
any idea what I did wrong?
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how to check my questions that have not been answered?
Hi all, is there anyway we can check the questions that we make that we have not marked any answers? (like a filter)
Which section should these questions be at?
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search all comments made within the last month, and answers, to locate an interesting question?
How do I search all comments within the last month?
I remember an interesting question, and of keywords in it all I recall is 2+ comments had the word project in them. So i'd like to see all ...
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Captcha not showing input....
When prompted for a Captcha by SU, There's no visible captcha text and no input box. The only thing visible is the "I'm a human" button.
Windows XP, FireFox 4
Form Source:
<form method="...
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Edit tags on migrated question
This question has been migrated to Stack Overflow (you'll probably have to search on [macro] to see the stub), and now because of the bad decision to link it directly to that question on SO, it can't ...
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A Kindle question closed; why? It's software+hardware...
https://superuser.com/q/276010/65570 was closed with a message "Questions on Super User are expected to generally relate to computer software or computer hardware in some way".
According to the ...
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Can someone explain to me about reputation?
I don't understand how to get Reputation. I have tried searching for the answer, but to no avail. Even a link to the correct page will be greatly appreciated. Thank you!
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Can I claim ownership of my answer to a migrated question?
I posted an answer to question on SO which was then migrated to SU as #215180. At the time, I didn't have an account on SU, but I've just created one and linked it with my SO account. Will the ...
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Why can't we flag as "off topic" for other SE sites?
When we flag as "Off-topic" and suggest another SE site, we can only choose from a couple options. I've been in the situation where I want to flag a post as Android or iDevice, but can't select these ...
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Comments on migrated question no longer relevant
This question of mine was migrated from StackOverflow to SuperUser. The comments on it are no longer relevant. Can they be deleted?
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Does StackExchange keep records of removed OpenIDs?
Who (other than myself) can view my OpenID?
If I change my OpenID (add new one, then remove old one), does StackExchange keep a record of the removed OpenID in database?
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Should my rep be combined?
I was just wondering if the reputation from both my Super User and Stack Overflow accounts should be combined?
On one of them I have 600~ and on the other I have 100.
Are they supposed to be ...
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Different concept of 'days ago' used on reputation feed.
As far as I can tell, "1 day ago" doesn't quite mean the same thing on the reputation feed as it does elsewhere, e.g. activity.
On chat, Daniel Beck says:
@PriceChild This one's easy. Rep feed
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Merge some .NET tags
There are questions that are tagged .net-framework (110), and other questions tagged .net-framework-3.5 (7), .net-3.5 (4), .net-2.0 (2).
Would not to keep .net-framework as general tag, and use tags ...
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How to add my photo to SU account?
I tired to add my photo to my profile, it redireted me to Gravatar i added my photo there, then what, i don't understand the next step.. Thank you for your help
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Idle moderator position
quack quixote has left Super User for good (here is the related post), and he still seems to have the moderator position (obviously idle). I think this position should be granted (by election) to an ...
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SO user new to SU starting with 101 reputation?
Out of curiosity - how can a user start out with a rep of 101 on SU? I'm looking at the profile of Merlin and even though he has no activity visible to me (no votes anyhow), he seems to have started ...
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Would a hardware comparison question count as 'shopping recommendation'?
I have a question about motherboards. I wanted to know if there were any downfalls of buying a motherboard that can take am2/am2+ and am3 cpus. Usually you only see am3 CPUs being supported.
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Accessing superuser.com/users/flag-weight/<username> results in error
When I try to access https://superuser.com/users/flag-weight/dragonlord I get a 500 eror. However, accessing https://superuser.com/users/flag-weight/73918 does not.
Can this be handled more ...
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Tag duplicate: wol -> wake-on-lan
Can we have wol made a synonym of wake-on-lan please?
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Explanation requested for deleted answer
Just curious why my answer on this question (10K / mod obviously required to view my answer) was deleted by a mod. If the reason is that it sounds like a comment, then I take exception to that ...
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Am I able to move a question of mine from SuperUser to IT Security?
Namely, this one? And, if not, what is the Right Way to ask for it to be moved?
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Why was this question closed?
Why was this question on Windows documentation closed? It is based on an actual problem I faced, it is answerable and it is about software. The reason given to close it, being outside the scope ...
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Reputation for 'marked as answer' not credited
Today a response by me Matlab user guides in Kindle format was marked as answer and also upvoted .
The upvote was credited but the reputation points for marked as answer was not
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All superuser tabs crashed in chromium
This has happened twice to me today , all the open tabs of superuser crashed simultaneously on Chromium (11.0.697.0 (77441)) , on refreshing the pages come back.
Does anybody know why this is ...
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Tag rename request: [excel] -> [microsoft-excel] & [powerpoint] -> [microsoft-powerpoint]
This question has been superseded by Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?.
At the time of writing this, there are 722 questions tagged as excel & 161 questions tagged as powerpoint
I ...
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Who is previewing tag wikis?
I'm not quite to 2500 rep on SU yet, so when I made a tag wiki for VBA, it said that it would have to be previewed and approved. That was quite a while back, and nothing's been done on it one way or ...
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Why is my question being voted to close right now?
I do not know what's wrong with this:
https://superuser.com/questions/260317/comprehensive-online-product-database-with-decent-search-function
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How do I revert, undo, or reverse my own edit?
Yesterday on stackoverflow I accidentally edited someone's answer instead of my question.
I added an "Update: " and saved it then realized my mistake, and edited again, took that edit out and put it ...
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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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Is it OK to ask questions about a certain product on Super User?
I am looking for a webcam and I wanted to know if I can ask for recommendations on superuser. Is this kind of thing allowed?
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Issues with OpenID.org - allow users register with their email?
User Randolph Richardson is a contributing member of SU, but he is an unregistered user because he cannot get his OpenID.org account to work properly. I have offered to merge his unregistered account ...
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Images abducted by ImageShack.us until we pay the ransom
I'm not sure what is involved in the registration of the domain (surely they want some $$).
This is the question: iTunes 9 does not show icon in Windows 7 taskbar?
Can a moderator register the ...
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