Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Can I award a bounty on an already-accepted answer?
A few days ago, I asked a question and quickly received an answer...
What setting will convince Windows menus to appear to the right, instead of left?
Because the answer was received quickly, I ...
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Please help reopen this shutdown question?
How can I identify the culprit of my slow Windows shutdown?
This is a real problem and I can answer this question so it has enough specifications.
We have no idea how your system is set up and ...
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Are software-specific questions okay?
I checked out the FAQ and searched Meta. Couldn't figure it out.
I'm wondering how to change the default save format in Notepad++. It's not in the docs. What I typically get when I ask Q&A ...
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Create a synonym [osx-10.7] -> [osx-lion]
Our OS X tags usually use the version names instead of the numbers.
osx-10.7 should therefore be a synonym for → osx-lion, just like lion is.
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Can moderators move and change comments?
In this question What is a good password manager that works well with Chrome? somebody (I don't remember the name) answered my question. I responded with a comment. Now I see that answer and my ...
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Request to reopen green question 298408
Now that I've found an answer I'd like to request that How can I determine the ecological impact of a computer? is reopened. I hope that my answer, in addition to the one already there, demonstrates ...
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How can I insert a picture in a Super User question?
I am trying to insert a picture in a Super User question. How can I do that?
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How do I block a user from superuser?
Is there a way to block a user I do not want reading my questions?
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Super Contest Time Frame [closed]
Quoting the announcement blog post from August 19th:
This contest will be going on for the next two weeks starting Monday the 29th at 00:00 UTC!
The 29th was five days ago.
The announcement both ...
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How do I protect a question?
Today I got to 15,000 reputation. Neat-o, I got a little notification that I could now protect questions!
Now, let's try this! Go to any question, click the "Protect" link.
… but …
Where is the ...
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What is the purpose of closing, when compared to deletion?
With me being a relative newbie to Super User, I am trying to understand how the system works.
As per the SU FAQ, questions have to meet certain standards, and that low quality ones will be closed. I ...
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Where is the logout link on Super User?
Where is the logout link on Super User?
I read it is in the user profile but I can't see it.
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How can I move a question to another SE site that isn't on this list?
I see I can flag my own question and click as off-topic to be able to move it to another site but I only see a few sites in the list:
In my case, I want to move a question from Super User to the ...
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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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Putting heat on the cooling/heat/overheat/thermal tag synonyms
The tags cooling, heat, overheat, and thermal seem to be synonymous.
Personally, I would set cooling as the master tag, but I wanted to leave that up for discussion.
For all I know it would be ...
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Error with question preview
My question if you click "edit" and look at the preview you'll see that it is very different from the actual view. In the preview you see a hyperlinked but when you go to the actual question, you ...
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Old User accounts deleted?
I registered on superuser.com and posted a couple of answers under the account:
https://superuser.com/users/8954/lazlow
However, today I visited the site again - having not logged in for a few months ...
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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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Why was the question about the difference between an Intel i7 and Xeon processor closed?
Are there noticeable differences in Intel i7 and Xeon 5400 chipset family? [closed]
Initially, I may have phrased the question incorrectly but was essentially getting to the primary question of the ...
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What Privileges Are Available in Meta Super User?
Unlike Stack Overflow Meta (and the main Super User site), Super User Meta does not show privileges available to users when hovering over the username. Are there any plans to add this feature, or ...
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SuperUser renders oddly in Firefox, truncating question titles
I came to SuperUser.SE for the first time today and this site, unlike all the other SE sites I've used, renders unhelpfully for me in Firefox:
As you can see, I have turned off Stylish and ...
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Request to reopen question 329904
I would like to request to reopen: What are threads, and what do they do in the processor?
This question is perfect for SuperUser SE. Computer hardware question that isn't related to buying ...
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Why was my question about "Intentions and security risks of AIM bots" closed?
I've recently made a question at SuperUser about the intentions and security risks of AIM bots and it was downvoted and closed as Not a real question. I've browsed the site guidelines and I'm not ...
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Question downvote miscalculation?
I recently downvoted a poorly written question. The downvote was registered on the question, the change in reputation was documented on the user's page, the downvote count on my profile incremented, ...
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Are linked images automatically updated to StackExchange's imgur account?
Are linked images automatically updated to StackExchange's imgur account? I noticed many of the linked images within questions and answer are hosted at i.stack.imgur.com. If not, then how can I upload ...
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Request to reopen question 216839
I believe this question was closed by mistake. There is enough information to answer the question. I also edited to clean it up a little. Honestly, it really didn't need it. Now it looks slightly more ...
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Why votes on question don't change the tag vote count in the User Profile?
When you ask or answer a question the tags of such question appear in your profile, as people vote your answers the tag score on your profile increases/decreases.
Why doesn't it do the same for when ...
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How to know how many edits where made on my question?
Is there a way to know how many edits were made on one of my posts?
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superuser rss feed not displaying on Windows7 gadget [closed]
Hi,
I searched around superuser and could not find similar question. Many users have problem to "display the gadget", but my problem is that the gadget showed up properly, but only few of my feeds ...
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Burnination and Synonyms Part III (hopefully the last one)
For burnination:
sell
simple
solidworks (rare misspelling)
student
stuck (worthless as used now)
superuser
subjective
support
system (burned, but replaced with system.exe for those who need it)
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SU Review, how to stop "watching" a tag
On the review page, I selected a tag to see the questions needed review for that specific subject. But now, I can't find a way to go back and see all the tags combined.
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Meta Tag Wikis Can't be Edited [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Unable to propose tag wiki
With the addition of tag wiki proposals, it seems as though Meta's language changed despite still not being able to edit tag wikis.
I can see how ...
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More for burnination and synonyms
Burnination:
first
function
general
hardware-selection (the two questions with this tag are closed, and hardware combination seems better anyway; might be better to make them synonyms though)
home (...
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Appeal tag wiki ban?
Is it possible for me to appeal the ban that I have on editing tag wikis? The reason I got the ban is for trying to add the following text to the tag wikis of some tags:
Please make sure that if ...
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Many questions tagged "ide" should be tagged "pata"
Many of the questions currently tagged "ide" should actually be tagged "pata". ide is for integrated development environments, rather than Integrated Drive Electronics.
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Tags that should never be the only ones on a question
It seems to me that there are some tags that if they are the only ones on a post (or even if they are mentioned at all) pretty much make the question off topic. Perhaps these tags should have a ...
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Question closed due to non-question format -- rewritten
I recently had a question closed due to it being labeled as not a real quesiton, so I just rewrote the question and wanted to ask if it could be opened again and also, if the negative score could be ...
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Merging answers of duplicate questions
I know that it says "its answers may be merged with another identical question" for duplicate questions, but I have never seen it actually done.
Is there a chance that this could happen for my answer ...
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Why can't I comment on answers to my own question?
Several months ago I was using this site to ask people and I got 90% good answers. In the past I could write a comment about their answers, but now I cannot see comment button.
I can just answer ...
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Incorrect user display of questions on user profile?
I asked a question yesterday here and there were two answerers to it, of which one was deleted (I guess by the author). The question does currently display like this on my profile page:
As you can ...
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Can a user remove a flag that they have set?
Lets say a user posts a question. Another user, based on the questions content, thinks that the question belongs on another StackExchange site, such as WebApps, and flags it. Then the other user edits ...
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Why does the Chat show so much reputation?
I wish that I had 5.9k rep, but I dont, not even combined... (and the badge count only has my superuser badges, not even meta).
What does the 5.9k mean?
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View the year questions are posted and be able to sort questions by votes regardless of year?
I'd like to be able to view the year questions are posted.
And to be able to sort questions by votes regardless of year.
I see questions in the right hand side mention how many years ago they were ...
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Newsletter top question bug
I have just received the newsletter, and one of the top questions was How to analyze a link to figure out the actual link. It said I had answered the question.
It's nice I guess, but my answer was ...
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Why do I see my own suggested tag edits in the edit queue?
I've been creating some tag excerpts, but somehow they've made it into my review queue.
Of course, I can't accept or reject them, they're just there.
Is this a bug or by design?
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View close votes
Is there a way to view a list of all the close votes that I have cast (similar to viewing the flags that I have sent)?
Its not really that important, but I was just curious if there was a way.
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inserting a line break in a comment [duplicate]
Is this possible? It gets annoying when I want to address two different things in one comment (or two different people) and it all gets crammed together.
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Enlightened badge not showing up
I think I have achieved the criteria for the badge on this question, and I have waited about an hour. Is there something that I am missing?
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Make timetracking a synonym of the time-tracking tag
I think tags time-tracking and timetracking should be synonyms because their difference is only hyphen
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Tag Editor badge
For some reason, I had an edit accepted to a tag (two actually) but no badge. Is this a bug, or is there something in badge qualifications that requires more?