Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Retag windows-7-x64 to windows-7 and 64-bit?
Probably, but since there are already 12 questions tagged windows-7-x64, I figure I should ask first.
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StackExchange widget links to 404
I commented on a question some days ago.
Recently the StackExchange widget showed a red icon, clicking it showed
comment on
grep results in putty
(windows 7) terminal change depending
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Is the notification of other new answers whilst typing an answer broken?
A couple of times recently, I've started answering a question and by the time I have posted my answer, another has appeared.
In the past, I have received a notification at the top of the screen ...
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How do I view the markdown source for a post?
I was trying to figure out how users markdown a button but I do not see a "view source" button. I could of sworn I've been able to see the source of a post before... somehow. Am I bugging out?
Maybe ...
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How do you appeal a close decision?
Specifically my question's closure. It's not about mobile phones at all, it's just that I didn't know it was being closed at the time so I had no chance to "defend" it.
Thank you.
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Where can I purchase a superuser t-shirt?
Saw that there were some contests a while ago and I would love to be able to purchase my own shirt as I was not a member of the community when the contests took place.
Does anybody know where I can ...
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Following a question
Hi,
Is there a way to "subscribe"/ follow an interesting question without replying to it?
Best regards,
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I found a 3-day-old spammer
He answered one of my questions and then I browsed his answers only to find out that he is a spammer. All answers are the same and are commending a shareware. I demand deletion of his account.
name: ...
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Posting Useful Information
Is there a place where useful information can be posted without actually asking a question? For example, while doing some research, just prior to asking a question on SuperUser, I found the answer. ...
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SU Meta Community Link pointing to SO Meta Community
Since yesterday i.e October 8th, 2010, I unable to see meta site link for SU and SF.
We have meta community link in SF and SU but both points to SO meta Community.
Am I missing anything here?
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Today, again, for some reason I was logged out of Superuser and, Indeed Meta. I didn't log out! Why am I logged out?
Today, again, for some reason I was logged out of Superuser and, Indeed Meta. I didn't log out! Why am I logged out?
This has happened at least twice that I am aware of.
Regards,
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Webapps link missing in SU
I can't see webapps link in super user screen bottom section.
Same link is present SO, API/Apps. Even serverfault doesn't have this link?
I'm not sure about bug tag, still i'm making this question ...
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Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account message in stackoverflow
Why am I getting the following message in stackoverflow ?
Oops! Your question couldn't be submitted because:
Sorry, we are no longer accepting questions from this account.
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How to deal with a cross-posted question which belongs to SU ?
Some days ago, I posted this question.
This is a cross-post from Ubuntu SE. The question has also been answered.
I now know that cross-posting is discouraged. However, I think it belongs here. IMO, ...
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How do you get the Announcer Badge?
The Announcer badge says:
Shared a link to a question that was visited by 50 unique IP addresses in 2 days
But how do they know who posted the link? If I post a Superuser link to reddit.com how ...
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list favorites?
I see it tells me very recent changes to any of them and how many. Today, this week, last month e.t.c.
But I don't want to see changes and I don't want to see just as far as last month.
Or rather.. ...
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Sudden Loss of Reputation [closed]
A minute ago I reached 1,512 in 5 minutes from 1,474. Now i am back to 1,474 in just 5 minutes. How is this possible . Please any moderator tell me where I lost my rep. What is happening.
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Different Reputation showed. Which one is correct?
I´ve got a strange thing going on here. My reputation showed in the bar on top of the site is 714.
I was happy with it until i looked at http://superuser.com/reputation yesterday.
The reputation ...
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what is the critics badge? i did not down vote any.
Hi,
I got the Critic badge in Stack Overflow. It said it is for down voting. i did not down vote any answers. i accidentally voted and again revoked. How to fine which post i have down voted if i had ...
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Requesting rep recalc
Can any of the mods please do a rep recalc on my account ? There's a rep difference of about 500 points between the rep on my current profile and the /reputation report, and I'd rather get it down now ...
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What happened to question "Worst Web Site Design Ever"?
I realise this question - https://superuser.com/questions/15798/worst-web-site-design-ever - isn't appropriate for Super User, but did it just get deleted and that's it?
IMHO it had some decent low ...
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How do web-software related questions differ in superuser from questions in webapps of stackexhange?
I guess the web related software questions can be asked in either of the websites - superuser or webapps? Am I correct?
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Why this question was closed?
This question was closed as subjective and argumentative:
What's your favourite “super user” Anti-boss technique
Waiting for the "Not Programming related" proposal, i thought my question would fit ...
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Is it possible to make the valuable flair appear smaller?
I´m having some trouble with the valuable flair you can place on your own website.
I want to place it into the sidebar of my blog. The poblem is, the sidebars width is only 190px. The valuable flair ...
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Do I lose all my question-votes if I go back and edit my question?
Just got a question solved, and I selected an answer. For the sake of clarity I would like to go back to my original question and put the solution in the answer.
Since my Question has multiple votes ...
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Can not use code tag
With the following question, Interesting Windows 7 boot Issue involving RAID and an SSD, I'm not able to remove the quote block in which the code block is embedded. Without making it a quote, the code ...
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Asking questions about facebook in superuser [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Official stance on Facebook questions on SU?
I wanted to ask a question about facebook in superuser only to discover that almost all questions tagged facebook have been closed....
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where to ask about website CMS, like wordpress SU or SO?
Wordpress is technically computer software, but it is also programming and development. So where should I ask a question about a WP plugin on SO or SU?
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Changing Avatar trouble
When I try to change my avatar by clicking "Change Picture" under my profile, I am taken to www.gravatar.com. But I have an myOpenId account with an option to change my profile picture. Which one ...
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Timeline broken
Trying to view the timeline for Thunderbird 3 "Reply to all", also replies to myself using the URI https://superuser.com/posts/120241/timeline fails with Oops! Something Bad Happened!. This ...
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Shouldn't I get tumbleweed badge?
I have written this question: Is there a quick key command that will switch frames in Flash? and have not gotten answers for a month and only 29 views. I think that qualifies for a Tumbleweed badge, ...
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Migrate previously closed question to Gaming?
Now that https://gaming.stackexchange.com/ exists, can we migrate questions that were previously closed as off-topic because they are related to gaming to it? Specifically, I'd like to move this ...
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Close as duplicate loop
usb write protected! is closed as a duplicate of
https://superuser.com/questions/112401/why-would-disks-mysteriously-become-write-protected which is closed as a duplicate of
Remove the write ...
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Super User or SuperUser?
Officially, how are we supposed to write Super User?
SuperUser (NO space)
Super User (WITH space)
I'm constantly wondering about this whenever I go to write Super User, etc, and I've seen all ...
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Are questions being moved to other stackExchange sites? Where is my old SuperUser question?
I came to SuperUser today to check an old question. The question have very good answers on it.
https://superuser.com/questions/5940/hidden-features-of-the-iphone
But it gives me a 404. I suspect ...
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Appropriate site for question about Google Groups?
I was about to ask a question on Super User about problems I've been having accessing Google Groups, but then I noticed that a lot of questions on that site having to do with web apps were being ...
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How do I gain reputation in SuperUser if my questions never get answered?
I am trying to become an active user in this community, but the question I have asked has become a tumbleweed, and I don't have enough reputation to upvote any answers to other questions. Looking ...
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Is this user a SpamBot?
Is this user a Spambot? ~10 questions in a span of about 5 minutes o_0
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I occasionally get a message in Superuser that it works better with Java script enabled.
I occasionally get a message in Superuser that it works better with Java script enabled. However, when I go to Javascript, it is already enabled.
Why would this happen?
I'm using Windows XP and ...
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Where should questions about mobile devices, phones, gadgets, etc be asked?
I was wondering where should I post slightly off-topic questions. As I've read on SuperUser its only about computer hardware and software. Do the various USB gadgets fit in the 'hardware' category? ...
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SU question closed as Exact Duplicate, but it does not seem to be the same to me.
I posted this question yesterday evening:
Good software to take a blog and format it for printing
It is a question looking for a software tool that will take a blog and format it for printing.
This ...
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Retag request Xp -> Windows-XP on Super User
Over on Super User the grass keeps needing a trimming. Requesting a retag on
XP × 30 0
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'google-chrome' and 'chrome'
On SuperUser I'm trying to clean up google tags, and I noticed that there are 266 tagged 'google-chrome' and 58 just 'chrome'.
Could some please do a batch retag of chrome to google-chrome?
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SuperUser is not allowing me to post an answer
I can't post an answer to the question.
I get Oops! Something Bad Happened! page. There is the text from the webpage:
We apologize for any inconvenience,
but an unexpected error occurred while
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Cannot vote at all, but can edit / tag etc.
I cannot seem to vote on Superuser. I can on Stackoverflow however.
Error log in Firefox says Error: vote is not defined.
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Reopen request for SU?
Hello, I posted what I thought was a legitimate question on Super User at Why are brownouts so harmful?
It was closed almost immediately as not a real question with the explanation "This is not a ...
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Merging macbook* tags on SU
On Superuser, there are two tags for the same subject :
macbookpro, with 122 hits
macbook-pro, with 3 hits
That would be nice is someone could merge these two tags to macbook-pro (with a hyphen) I ...
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Retag request: torrent -> bittorrent
15 questions tagged 'torrent' on superuser
48 questions tagged 'bittorrent' on superuser
(Only 'bittorrent' is used on SO and SF.)
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Logging into SuperUser via mobile phone
I try to log into SuperUser from my mobile phone, but it fails. I can easily browse the pages of SuperUser, but when I click on "login" and then select my OpenID account provider, it doesn't work. Is ...
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Retag Request/Tag Merge Request for Super User: 'windows7' and 'windows-7'
The 'windows-7' tag has 1752 questions, while the 'windows7' tag has only 2.
Keep: 'windows-7'
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