Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Recent diamond activity on MSU
For the past 3 weeks or so, diamond activity on Meta has been on a long time high. Even team members partipate. And it's not just recent topics, but also older ones being replied to and statuses ...
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How do I associate an earlier username (not OpenID) with my current OpenID login?
I added an answer to a superuser question some time ago using a name entry rather than an OpenID. (Actually, I think the original question was moved from Stack Overflow to superuser.)
Since then, I ...
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Request to reopen question 385613
The question https://superuser.com/questions/385613/do-consumer-routers-with-deep-packet-inspection-for-http-traffic-exist has been updated to no longer be a shopping question. I have a solution to ...
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Reopen request for question 384894
I asked this: Is a 'telecommuter' SLA a good idea? Does it even exist?
I don't know where else on StackExchange to ask other than SuperUser. This clearly falls under the general SuperUser ...
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Missing Upvotes
I went through several of KCotreau's answers yesterday upvoting, showing my appreciation using the upvotes I had left near the end of the day.
This morning, I found none of my votes for him from ...
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Information in Community Promotion Ads statistics
This page contains statistics for the current community promotion ads. Unfortunately, it does not contain enough data for users to judge the numbers that are shown.
Are all ads shown equally often? ...
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Check Edit Differences
I edited a rather long question in SuperUser, and while I was given the +2 reputation, my name was not listed as the one who edited it; someone else was. I'm just curious as to what I edited ...
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Stepping on someone elses work
I have been working on a question on SuperUser for a user who was having issues with VMWare images and player, but now I am very concerned.
All VMware software & their installers fail to start, ...
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Gaming question - Is this question acceptable on SuperUser?
I posted the following question on the Gaming site:
https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/48467/stuttering-audio-and-graphics-in-pc-games
Topic was closed and I guess deemed off topic, even ...
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What’s up with the volume tag? [closed]
The volume tag is a mixup of partitioning questions and audio questions.
Could someone sort it out? (FYI it's the same mistake done by Polish Windows translators: translating "volume manager" like it ...
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How are suggested edit results displayed to low rep users?
When suggested edits were introduced, I had more rep than required to edit on my own.
Since I'm now approving and rejecting suggested edits, I'd like to know how approval and rejection are presented ...
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Close reason not shown?
This question has been migrated from StackOverflow - and apparently back. Both sites show the question as closed, but the close reason is not displayed anywhere.
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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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Conditional search
Is there a way to search for posts containing (text1 OR text2) AND text3?
Edit for clarity: It would be the same as a join of the searches text1 AND text3 and text2 AND text3
There probably is, just ...
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Spam from Webupon
We seem to be getting an increasing amount of answers linking to the following page:
http://webupon.com/web-talk/yahoo-messenger-problem-solution-to-the-blank-im-screen/
The actual link appears to ...
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Please burninate multiple tag
multiple does no good and brings in multiple! problems.
Please burninate it.
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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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Re-open request for question 312922
What Can I do to Improve Cable Link/Signal Quality?
The author specifically mentions that he has internet connection problems due to this issue. Finally, I present this clause from the SuperUser FAQ ...
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Is my Stack Exchange account broken? I can't login.
When I tried to use SuperUser.com (the main site) just now, I realized that I'm not logged in. So, I tried to login, but the password recovery option reports errors that my eMail addresses aren't ...
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I can't mark two answers correct, so how should I curate this nugget of knowledge?
I have collated both answers into a new answer, but don't want to give myself the points or kudos for getting a correct answer when I'm just clarifying two answers?
Hope this makes sense: see here:
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Retrieving saved draft of question
I spent a fair amount of time putting in a question. As I did, I noticed a message saying a draft was saved. When I tried to post my question, it was unsuccessful - probably because I clicked on the ...
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Question Migrated but my flag was declined [closed]
Today I saw this question and flagged it as Very low quality because as far I know, it doesn't belong here and should be closed or should me migrated.
I usually flag a lot of questions as Very low ...
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Display questions which have not chosen an answer on user profile
How to see all questions which have not chosen an answer on user profile ?
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Community user voting
Under what circumstances does the community user upvote answers?
As a side note, why does it not have the civic duty badge?
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Merge questions
Mea culpa. I posted a question here a while ago, didn't get any responses, so I posted again over at stackoverflow. However, that post was migrated back here, so now I have two pretty-much identical ...
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How to remove a "frequented" tag?
Edit: Found a exact duplicate over on meta.StackOverflow: How do I remove a frequented tag?
In the upper right corner of the main page (below Ask Question) it says:
Frequented Tags
[firefox]
This ...
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Can question 307725 please be reopened
I am a little confused. I think my question 307725 was incorrectly closed by a moderator.
The question refers to the use of the Kindle app on Windows. Surely that is acceptable?
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How do I make the question community wiki?
How do I make the question community wiki? I don't see such a button
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Can accepted answers be changed now?
My reputation just went down by 15 points for some reason. I think my answer was accepted at one point for PSU power cable length, and will my graphics card fit in my case?, but now the other answer ...
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Burninate the [unlocking] tag [closed]
The unlocking tag seems too generic.
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Merge the tag "test" with the tag "testing"
It seems that test and testing should be set as synonyms.
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Merge superuser and stackoverflow accounts
I've just created an account here, but I see my reputation is 1 even though on stackoverflow it's about 175. In my user panel there are both accounts listed.
So my question is: Can I merge these ...
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Merge tags "tab" and "tabs"
Both tab and tabs refer to the exact same thing and thus should be merged.
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SU Tag merge request [wi-fi] to [wireless-networking]
wi-fi (60) --> wireless-networking (2507)
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Top user record keeping
I plan to apply to college soon and might want to mention that I got to be in the top .59% of all users on superuser for this quarter.
Is there any way for them to verify, or for me to prove it to ...
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Meta participation
I was looking at the Moderator Election page for the last election, and I noticed that each candidate has a Meta participation section, showing how many times their question or answer has be up/down ...
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How to add a code block following a numbered or ordered list [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Can not use code tag
Just a little quirk I noticed when using the Editor.
This is bad:
This is good:
Alternatively, you have to insert a horizontal rule (---) between the list ...
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Does this belong on Super User?
I'm seeing a lot of questions like this flagged as belonging on Server Fault.
The SF FAQ says quite emphatically that their site is for professional server admins only, so it probably doesn't belong ...
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How to change a set bounty
Is it possible to increase bounty?
Like I have set bounty to this question to 100, but I would like to raise it to 150. Does the system allow me to do so?
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Not a real question? Why was this question closed?
This question was closed just now as being not a real question. Yet, it was clear the OP experienced an infinite loop where he didn't expect one. The reason for the unexpected program behavior wasn'...
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Why was my solution converted to a comment?
Solution link:
https://superuser.com/q/359995/74026
For sub-10k users:
If by converter you mean a cable adapter that converts between SATA and PATA, those are probably hit-or-miss as the two ...
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Can I embed a YouTube video in a question or answer?
Over on gaming.stackexchange.com I often see YouTube videos embedded in questions and answers. Here is an example.
I see in the source that there is not special markup, just the youtube.com url alone ...
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Google Chrome malware warning
Whenever I open this question, Google Chrome gives me a huge warning:
I was wondering if it could be because one of the images in the question came from a now-hijacked site or something. The Google ...
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Bug: Vote down after voting up
If I vote up a question or answer and later decide to vote it down (if I changed my mind or it was a mistake), it votes it down by 2 points.
This means that after the upvote the votes are 1, after ...
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When people give good answers to the wrong question
I asked this question last night just before going to bed. In summary, the question was "Why does my browser ask me before it will make an HTTPS connection?"
I've got two answers now, but both have ...
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Request for reopen question 352656
It was closed as off-topic by being mobile question, but in fact it is an windows software question to find a software to handle bulk installation/setup for several similar devices.
I rewrote the ...
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Where should I migrate this question to?
UltraEdit FTP not working with DreamHost is not really about a problem with UltraEdit, but about a configuration problem at an ISP.
What is an appropriate site to migrate this question to?
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Do I get email notifications for favorited questions? [duplicate]
I would like to track questions which I don't have anything to contribute to.
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Where has the comment thread on Page File stuff gone to?
On What's wrong with disabling the Windows page file? Mehrdad and I had a non-heated discussion on page files, is it still available to us so that we continue on it in chat? I also might need it ...
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How can I get an update on an old question?
How can I get an update on an old question? For instance, this one. I'd like to hope that there have been updates in the software available to someone with this question.
I guess my real question ...