Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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I'm losing my hope for my Superuser t-shirt
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Where in the world is my SuperUser t-shirt?
My hope for getting my Superuser t-shirt began with the form I filled on April 8th, 2010. Then on May 11th, I asked this question. ...
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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 ...
The Sasquatch
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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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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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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 ...
mpassell
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WordPress is off-topic [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Questions about WordPress on Super User
I see a number of superuser.com WordPress threads closed as "closed as off-topic".
In the FAQ I see "websites or web services like ...
Lloyd Budd
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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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SU Tag Merge Request: [monitors] to [monitor]
Really just a cosmetic thing, I think [monitors](19) should be merged into [monitor](290). It makes sense not to fragment the tags based on a plural. I guess, as well, this should be added to the list ...
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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 in the world is my SuperUser t-shirt?
I filled in the form to receive my SuperUser t-shirt on April 8th, but I haven't received it yet. It's been more than a month. Is there any way to learn if it's on its way to Istanbul?
EDIT:
Today is ...
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Odd poster - offensive answer content - what should I do?
Off of this question.
There is a user who has now posted three questions I find offensive to the point where I edited them, and flagged for a mod.
At this point I'm beginning to wonder what he means ...
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Where to ask questions about Android
Android phones are computers and have power-users who want to make the most of them. Except these power users have been exiled from superuser.com by the evil-tyrant (qq) and left to ask their ...
Arthur Ulfeldt
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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? ...
Ivan Petrushev
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why this question get closed on SU which is related to gmail?
Possible Duplicate:
Superuser website applications policy
https://superuser.com/questions/127516/web-cam-symbol-in-gmail-chat-window-closed
This is the reason showing
closed as off-topic by ...
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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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Is Superuser's <code> CSS light-blue highlight near invisible on anyone else's laptop LCD?
I have a 15" laptop with a quality built-in LCD, but still, some very light colors wash out to where they're barely noticeable. For example the light blue background color used for the <code> ...
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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
to
Windows-XP × 2027 2,189
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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?
Edit: ...
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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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user144670
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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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Extra "Nice Answer" Badge and "Good Answer"?
I've noticed that Super User has granted me two "Nice Answer" badges.
Yet I can only see one answer of my own which would appear to qualify. Additionally, I seem to have a "Good Answer" badge on ...
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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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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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Superuser.com bug with pixel.quantserve.com?
I have noticed this for the past few days, Many SuperUser.com pages simply do not finish loading.
I refreshed the page ten times, once it was stuck on "Waiting for www.gravitar.com...", but ...
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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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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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What is happening to my SU rep? (Or, how is my rep changing before my eyes!)
So today I've had a fair few upvotes, no downvotes - reached 6660 on SU, then went and had some tea. Came back, 6668. Damn, a downvote! Who has offended my honour so?
Nobody, apparently. Now my rep ...
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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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Superuser: mass system changes?
If you go to Superuser and scroll down a little, there are many entries with Splattne's name against them. I have gone in and can't see any sort of change, retag, answer or deleting.
Is this something ...
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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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Merge tags on superuser [virtualmachine], [virtual-machine], and [virtualization]
I noticed a similar question here, but it seems nothing has been done... On superuser there are tags for virtualmachine and virtual-machine. I think these two at the least should be merged, if not ...
GiH
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Who are the moderators of Super User?
Who are the moderators of Super User?
I don't see any moderator presence online right now to close out questions I want closed.
joe
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My question disappeared
This morning I posted two questions on superuser.com, 65438 and 65444. The latter, 65444, seems to have vanished. Can anyone please tell me where it's gone to?
Edit: the question was about using ...
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How to reopen this question? [closed]
I would like to just contact the moderator who closed this question but I don't know how, so I'm posting here.
The moderator is saying that this question is a duplicate, but I specifically am ...
GiH
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Why doesn't Super User work without JavaScript?
Super User says it works best with JavaScript enabled. I would change that message to:
Super User does not work without JavaScript.
Personally I dislike the JS layer, and switched it off, but then ...
bert
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How do you delete a Super User account? [duplicate]
Over on Super User, I logged in accidentally with another Gmail account, and created a new profile.
Because of all the cookie/JavaScript/IP hocus-pocus, instead of a decent no-fuzz PHP login, Super ...
bert
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Superuser: retag-request for 64-bit, 64bit and maybe x64
On superuser "64-bit" and" 64bit" tags should be aliased into one or the other.
"x64" is similar, but may be a slightly different animal for some people, being specific to the mainstream AMD ...
DanO
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SuperUser organization for new computer build questions?
Ok, I saw another one of these questions come through SU today:
https://superuser.com/questions/57798/new-computer-build-questions
Valid questions, but they really become out of date and kind of ...
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What happened to my answer? No evidence of vote either
On Friday, I added an answer to Copy installation files that Novell Application Launcher uses on Super User. I also upvoted the question.
Now when I check back today, there is no evidence of either ...
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Which PHP script does Super User use?
Possible Duplicate:
What was Stack Overflow built with?
Does anybody know which PHP script Super User is using? I plan to set-up a web site for college education issues. But I want it to have a ...
NT
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virtualpc --> virtual-pc
virtualpc: 1 question
virtual-pc: 31 questions
There is no reason to have two tags. They mean the same thing.
Jim G.
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Please retag multiple SU tags
There are currently quite a lot of tags that have alternatives on SU. Would it be possible to trim them down a bit? I'd do it manually, but there's way too many of them:
vista (37) -> windows-vista (...
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retag-request: [videostreaming] -> [video-streaming]
Retag videostreaming to video-streaming. Same as https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/18601/retag-streaming-to-streaming, but for Superuser.
Only 8 questions so far https://superuser.com/...
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I don't understand the reputation limit
I love SuperUser.com and I am on it all the time, I do not do it for the reputation but it is a very nice bonus for helping people, that being said - it confuses the heck out of me!
I understand that ...
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Can't login to Super User
I have tried using my openID and some of the other options and it always says it's an invalid ID...any idea what may be happening?
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Diago needs a name addition?
So Diago has been doing a great job as the newest mod to SU. He ruthlessly puts up with endless amounts of non SU questions and promptly closes them. He sometimes gets unfairly revenge downvotes due ...
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Why are questions moved to SuperUser?
For the last few days now, I've seen some questions either closed or moved to SuperUser.
Why is that?
Preeti
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Dark color scheme for Superuser.com web pages
Stylish is a Firefox Add-on that lets you install and manage user styles. User styles exist mainly to change the way things look. They are written with CSS, the same language that web sites use to ...
sudeshpawar
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Why are game questions on SU just closed and not deleted?
This is a thought that came to mind after seeing the daily couple gaming questions that come into SU. If the rules state that most gaming questions are not within the scope of the site, why don't we ...
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