Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Un-close question -- not off-topic?
The question I'm referring to is Youtube etc. video problem
Someone closed it as off-topic, probably under the impression that the question was about "a website" or "a web service". In fact, the ...
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How does one appeal a close decision due to supposed question duplicate?
How do I 'share' a folder to the public in dropbox?
This isn't my question and I fully agree that my answer isn't the best one, but it is very clear to me that @Sathya is incorrect in his ...
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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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How do I view *all* of my historical questions?
How do I view my complete question history? I'm looking at but I can't see a way to change the date range.
Also in the past when I clicked on my name, the questions were shown right then. This ...
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Why was my question on Windows Mobile closed ?
https://superuser.com/questions/246940/how-to-associate-m3u-files-with-windows-media-player
There are 101 Windows Mobile questions
https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/windows-mobile
and 178 WMP ...
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Tag merge - [disconnect] and [disconnects]
Seems like more or less the same thing, 3 questions on one and 10 questions on the other. I can manually merge if no one objects.
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how do I view revisions to a question?
how do I view revisions to a question (presumably including tag changes)?
do I need a certain rep amount, if so how much?
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Any chances to bring a "long-ago-deleted question" back?
A long time ago, I had a problem with writing DVD +R/-R DL discs on my desktop computer, and I asked a question on SU. Then I deleted that question after some time since I couldn't find a solution.
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Question view count shows zero despite having an answer
How is it possible that a question can have zero (0) views and yet also have an answer?
Doesn't having an answer mean that there was at least one view?
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Chat doesn't think I am logged in
I have used chat in the past but now it prompts me to login, but I am already logged in (via Google).
If I run the help page tests every single one passes.
Current PC is an Acer laptop running ...
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What happened to "quack quixote" ?
quack quixote is a moderator of SuperUser, and I realize that he's not been around quite a while. I checked his profile, and he was last seen on July 13th 2010 at 17:17. Does anyone (esp. the ...
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I can't post pictures because I'm a newcomer?
I can't post any pictures because I'm a newcomer. It says that I need at least 10 reputation to do so. How can I fix this?
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SuperUser.com blocked by corporate firewall
Due to the questions regarding gaming and consoles on the SuperUser site our corporate firewall just blocked SuperUser as a gaming site and completely blocks access.
How do you convince your IT team ...
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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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I had two of my answers deleted and I don't understand why.
I had two of my answers deleted and I don't understand why. I left the second answer as deleted by the moderator as I am not going to go against the moderator, rather a reason why the answers were ...
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Several issues with posting questions on SU.com
Crap title, I know, sorry. But there really are a few weird issues going on.
I can't seem to post without a captcha. Ever.
Tag autocompletion is flat-out not working
I get a submission failure ...
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How come this question has 200+ kviews? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Over 243,000 views in 3 days?
What are the Windows A: and B: drives used for?
The view count of this question is the highest to be found on any stackexchange question, how is ...
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Problem with numbering in Markdown
When using a numbered list that's interrupted by a quote for each item, it's being rendered correctly in the edit/preview screen, but ends up 'resetting' each item in the final version.
In edit mode:
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Tag merge [freeze] - [freezing]
I'm guessing that there really is no difference between the two...
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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: [network] --> [networking]
Similar to SU Retag Request: wireless-network --> wireless-networking.
Can we retag network to networking?
Was doing this manually because I saw this first, until I saw it lists 400+ questions. :-(
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SU Retag Request: [something-extension(s)] --> [extensions]
Search for extension on https://superuser.com/tags.
Can't these be retagged to extensions, to avoid having google-chrome and google-chrome-extensions as tags on a post? The search allows to search ...
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SU Retag Request: [cmd] --> [command-line]
All questions tagged cmd are also tagged windows or something similar,
given that there is already a more popular tag command-line shouldn't we just retag all questions?
cmd might be made a synonym ...
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SU Retag Request: [*filter(ing)] --> [filter(ing)]
filter
filtering
web-filtering
spam-filtering
traffic-fitering
The above listed questions may benefit from splitting the tags apart
and housing them under filter or filtering. What do you ...
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SU Retag Request: [applications] --> [software]
applications might benefit from being merged to software.
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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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Please save this useful question
my question was migrated from stackoverflow
A Google approach to email
I think its a really good question "Does Gmail show real data or is it fake or prediction?" and it might be useful for other ...
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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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If (see body for link) was too localised, where can I ask such a question and get useful answers?
I asked this question earlier today, but it was closed as being too localised. That's fine, I guess. However, where can I ask such a question?
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What interface software system is used in superuser?
Possible Duplicate:
Which tools and technologies build the Stack Exchange Network?
Can't find it anywhere.
It looks very alike www.vark.com/community which is the uservoice I've confused it with ...
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SU tag merge request: [microsoft-word] and [word]
Can these tags on Superuser be merged into [microsoft-word] ?
[microsoft-word]: 358 tags
[word]: 39 tags
[msword]: 1 tag
EDIT: Can a moderator, please, add "Status-completed" tag to this question? ...
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showing total up and down vote counts
how can I see the total up and down vote counts?
any example q?
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My Gravatar won't change
I changed my Gravatar a couple of weeks ago through my profile options on this site. Despite clearing my cache and trying alternative browsers (Firefox, Chrome) and computers (Windows and Linux), the ...
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Consider migrating all questions tagged Android to android SE
There are a few dozen questions in Super User tagged android. Most of these have been closed as off-topic. They should be migrated to the relevant SE.
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What events trigger inbox notifications?
Sometimes I get a red number beside the StackExchange logo, telling me of new stuff in my inbox. What events cause this?
I know that new answers in my questions get added to my inbox, but what about ....
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why is my question closed?
Why was this question closed: https://superuser.com/questions/223366/can-ping-ip-address-and-nslookup-hostname-but-cannot-ping-hostname-closed ? Please reopen it since it hasn't been fixed yet.
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Why is stating a reason not required when closing a question?
A few of my questions are closed and no reason is ever provided.. this is incredibly annoying, why was closing questions like the following allowed?
Examples:
https://superuser.com/questions/209110/...
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Why did my nickname change [duplicate]
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Why is my superuser username suddenly user2293 instead of leeand00?
Why has my nickname changed on a few sites in the StackOverflow network, and how can I change them back ?
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How can I find moved question?
I am looking for a question or answer i had provided, but i couldn't find it on superuser.
I guess it was moved somewhere else (i.e. stackoverflow).
How can I search such answers/questions?
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Attempt to open a closed question.
One of my questions has been closed as not a real question because some people fail to grasp the implied question. I realise this is a public board and I must cater for all levels, so I have edited ...
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How to reply to a user about something off topic without derailing a comment thread?
Since I started using Super User a short while ago, I've been wondering how to comment on a user's attitude, spelling or similar without getting into a long off-topic comment thread which doesn't ...
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How are the referrals tracked for the Announcer badge?
I'm looking down the badges list and see the Announcer badge:
And so what I was wondering was how tracking/obtaining this badge is possible. Is there some kind of referral link somewhere that I don't ...
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When is a question on SU ontopic?
Recently I've posted my first question on SU, which was closed for being offtopic.
Now, when I wrote the question, the entrybox warned me that the title might be offtopic, so I'm very aware of that. ...
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Please don't be so trigger happy about closing questions
The ability to close questions as duplicates is great when used properly. However, I believe the community got a tad trigger happy with my question:
My question: How to (re)enable the “New” context ...
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Possible to "protest" the transfer of a question to another forum?
I just asked my first question on Super User, and found it to be the most appropriate category among the Stack Exchange sites.
However, it was immediately migrated to "Web Applications", an unrelated ...
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How Do I Reclaim a Migrated Question?
If I asked a question on ServerFault but it was closed there and moved to SU, how do I claim the newly migrated question? The specific question is Laptop Display Goes Blank
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what ways can I make one new line in a post?
what ways can I make one new line in a post?
And what is the sense in the fact that pushing enter and starting a new line, doesn't create a new line when the question or I guess answer is submitted?
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How to change my open ID to use a different google account
Hello superusers,
The title says it all. I have been using [email protected] to log in as lysdexic on this site and serverfault. I want to change that to [email protected], but I just can't seem to ...
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