Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Old monthly tag cleanups [closed]
This post is no longer active. It is preserved for historical reasons only. For more info on our new tag cleanup procedure, see:
Help us clean up tags!
A new way to clean up tags
The following tags ...
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Where's the dark theme option?
Stack Overflow has a dark theme option for several months now. Why is the same option not available on Super User? And across all the exchanges.
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Help us clean up tags!
Tags on Super User are meant to categorize posts to help people with specific expertise or interests to quickly discover posts that are relevant to them.
Over time we've collected quite a few ...
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Is there a <kbd> for the windows key?
I know we can use <kbd> to make keyboard short cuts like this ! For example, if I wanted to explain how to open the Run prompt on Windows, which is the Windows key and R, how would this be done? ...
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CSS for the new <kbd> style
The new <kbd> CSS is not loading for some users. So, for those who just can't wait, use your favorite CSS browser extension/feature to implement it yourself!
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Why don't I get notications for favorited questions?
According to this question on Meta.StackOverflow:
Changes to the question will now notify users who have favorited the
question. Notifications include comments to the question, edits, new
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Strange audit result
In the Close Votes review queue, I got Graphics Card Adapter Is Facing Backwards as an audit question.
The question had a colorful history: closed by a moderator as unclear, subsequently edited a ...
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I want to check a best answer for the post I did before as a guest at Stack Exchange
The other day, I posted a question as a guest at the site of Stack Exchange. Some users answered for me, and I wrote "Thank you". But I forgot to decide the best answer at that time.
Now, I ...
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Why does the Community user mark questions as duplicates?
I recently came across this question which has been marked as a duplicate. What's strange is that this question has been marked as a duplicate by the Community user:
How can Community mark a question ...
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Update the FAQ to disallow any product recommendation questions
Foreword added at +2/-1:
To make this clear: As far as I can tell (and I quote a diamond moderator below), this is already official moderation policy on this site. I just want to have this added ...
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Ongoing community task: ensure there are no [untagged] questions
The tag untagged is applied to questions which either have all their tags burninated, or to questions migrated from other sites (when tags from the origin site do not match any tags here).
According ...
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Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?
Tags for Microsoft products are currently a mess.
Office:
office, microsoft-office
office-2007, office-2010, office-2010-beta, ms-office-2007, office-2008, microsoft-office-2010, office-2010, office-...
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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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Super User Swag is still wanted
Looking through the sidebar, I found this old question about the Super User mug. I'm wondering if there's any update from the team about making swag available for purchase any time soon? Or what kind ...
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Reason for flags declined?
I had ~20 flags declined, and I do not know why. In addition, I posted to the "Ask a SU mod" chatroom why and did not hear back (hence me posting here).
Why were these flags declined?
EDIT: As a ...
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How to Report Cyclic Flagging?
This question is flagged as a duplicate of this question. However, that 2nd question is also flagged as a duplicate of the first.
How do I bring this to the proper individuals' attention?
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Banned Tag Proposal: Hackintosh
Due to the legal gray area that exists with regards to building or running Hackintosh machines we have always discouraged these question on SU since it would attract unnecessary attention to the site ...
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A site seems to be mirroring Super User
There is a question on Super User that seems to be copied at earthwithsun.com/questions/13942/paint-net-equivalent-for-linux
If you scroll down to the bottom of earthwithsun.com you'll see another ...
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Why call It Super User?
Stack Overflow and Server Fault are both clearly for problems in their respective fields. As such, why is Super User to be called Super User? Is it because it too begins with an S? What were other ...
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When is an answer eligible to be flagged as "not an answer"? What to do?
When I am flagging answers I read
This was posted as an answer, but it does not answer the question. It should possibly be an edit, a comment, another question, or deleted altogether.
This is very ...
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Can we get rid of the company tags?
I don't think any of the following tags have questions that benefit them:
microsoft, apple, acer, samsung, sony, asus, ...
And thinking in the meta tag way, a question that's only about those tags ...
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Oh noes... [pc] Trogdor? You there?
Hello citizens of the Super User Ville!
As our website is all about these beloved personal computers, it appears to me that pc can be applied to almost any question. As so, I don't think that it is ...
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Could we have a less obvious review audit user?
I've noticed a good chunk of my edit approval review audits are by the same user (who I will not name ;p), with a .. suspicious amount of rep (999/1024). I realize that review audits are meant to ...
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How do comment @replies work?
In a comment under my questions somebody used first name only @Ivoxzy instead of using the users full name @Ivoxyz FFlipse
Is the correct user going to informed about this message that was address ...
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Are “evolving answers” supported on Super User?
Preface: I believe that this question is somewhat in line with this other Meta question about troubleshooting questions in 2023.
While calling out another user who chronically posts “answers” (such ...
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Old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes
@IvoFlipse was looking for a query to find old unanswered inactive questions with low views/votes. Because those kind of questions clutter the site and keep the unanswered question ratio high, it is a ...
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Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!
Just when we thought we finally got rid of them all they appear to have been resurrected.
adobe x 200 — about 100 software and service products, PDF, Flash, Flex, graphics and video editing, web ...
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How to choose a community?
There are some communities with intersecting subjects with superuser.com. For example I could ask this question about volume control in linux at unix community, or this about hotkeys at software ...
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Whats the difference between Server Fault and Super User?
Whats the difference between Server Fault and Super User?
Aren't they both for SysOps questions?
Wouldn't it be prudent to have a mission statement for each site clearly visible?
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What is the "flag weight" in my profile? [closed]
I have been recently seeing an expression under my profile picture which says:
flag weight 250
What does it mean? What is it for?
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Super User mid 2012 tag/question cleanup [closed]
During my course of reviewing, editing & general janitorial cleanup, I ran into a few tags that were pretty much useless. Since there's too much for me to take action up, I'm posting the list here....
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Are the review post tests random?
I seem to have been getting a lot of "review tests" these past few weeks. I got one a few seconds ago and another one yesterday. Is this a random process and I've been unlucky or have I been singled ...
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Lets turn the blinking off ... on .. off.. on ... PERMANTENTLY OFF
The blinking tag is used in 18 questions. Mostly about blinking LEDs, cursors and monitors which turn on and off.
I suggest we permanently blink it out of existence.
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Why is superuser.com also served on port 8080?
I noticed this while Googling for "Notice removed Draw attention"; all of the superuser.com results have an explicit port in their URL.
Indeed it works.
http://superuser.com:8080/
http://meta....
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So you've submitted your blog post... Now what?
Congratulations to those of you that submitted your blog posts! If you had a positive overall score on your post you've been entered into the Windows 8 Contest Blog Tile drawing.
But you may be ...
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Would this question about printing a webpage be on-topic on Super User?
I'm trying to print a Medium post:
https://medium.com/@keeper6928/how-to-unit-test-machine-learning-code-57cf6fd81765
but no matter what I do, the code chunks get cropped. In the actual question, of ...
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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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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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Flagging posts that answer the question with something the OP has already dismissed
Note: This is a follow-up on Is “Y” really a valid answer to “I want X, and tried to do Y, but it doesn't work”? — because I don't think this is sufficiently answered, or at least doesn't seem too ...
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Did I do such low-quality questions? Please review my ban
Now I want to ask about a connection problem and I find my account banned from asking questions.
What did I do to get this? Were my questions out of scope? If so, why no one says which site is the ...
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Is anonymous & low rep vote information accessible?
Low rep and anonymous visitors who vote on posts see a message that their vote was recorded, but the information isn't visible anywhere. There is some reporting of this available to a limited number ...
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Need help with "need help" questions
Plz help!
I really need help with all those "need help" posts!1 (x86 36)
It's really urgent.
No, seriously. The words "need help" in a title are a good sign of low quality posts. In most cases, ...
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Can we block [bigasoft.com] from spamming our site?
I'm sure I've flagged at least five answers from spam users trying to promote bigasoft.com. They post nothing useful per se, but include links that look like tutorials, but in the end they always tell ...
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Can we get rid of the red "new" button beside blog?
I know it hasn't been up for long, but would there be a way to hide it? I figured once I visited the blog it would disappear, but it didn't.
Could we make it one of the "popup at the top" things? ...
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Why is the "noise or pointless" close option still enabled here?
So why do we still have "noise or pointless" as a close option on Meta Super User (and Meta Server Fault) and nowhere else? I've just noticed that the "not a real question" option is missing.
They ...
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Why wasn't this question deleted automatically?
Here's the link: https://superuser.com/questions/614234/errorunable-to-acsess-jarfile
As it's downvoted and old, it is supposed to be deleted automatically, but that doesn't happen.
Looks like that'...
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New User limitations
How long does it take to NOT be considered a 'New User'. Is it reputation, day/hour based?
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Possible false positive spam detection. Support and tips solicited
I have a question about my Super User post: My TV is not detected when I connect to my laptop through Thunderbolt/HDMI cable
My original answer to this question was http://pastebin.com/WGJbmwhQ.
I ...
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New Top Bar is live - What does it mean for me?
I just noticed that the new top bar's live (looks like later today) - what should I be looking for, and what does it mean for me?
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Announcement: New Functionality
I'll structure this as a question.
You have probably seen closed questions that you thought should be reopened, but it didn't happen. You may have chalked it up to community decision. But if you ...
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