Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Ban reinstated when I asked a new question after the existing one, but is not lifted by an upvote and +10 points in reputation?
I got banned without warning whatsoever who knows when (since Stack Exchange does not let you see the ban issuance date and time), and waited patiently until some days ago when it was lifted to ask a ...
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How does rep carry over from Super User to Meta Super User?
I do not quite understand how this works. My Meta user here has 509 rep, and my main user has 513 rep. Why is there that difference? It would seem to me that, since I have not answered/asked any ...
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What interface software system is used in superuser?
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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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Community bumping [status-completed] on meta.SU?
I don't think that it is right that the community user is bumping [status-completed] questions.
What do you think?
What about the other status tags?
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What can I do with old questions that I think should be closed?
Since I have started to use the review page, I have looked at many old questions. Some of them I believe should be closed (like What is the fastest BitTorrent client? for example). While I can cast ...
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Why can't I post on Super User?
I've looked at the other posts on this topic with no luck. I have a question that I'm trying to ask and answer myself. I typed it all up, but when I click Post Your Question and Answer it just reloads ...
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Electrostatic Discharge got deleted and reputation from the answers disappeared
A question about electrostatic discharge that I had answered was removed today, and with it I lost 592 reputation. The question is available via cache. I don't agree with the rationale for closing it ...
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need help to sign out of superuser.com
I am in the habit of properly logging off my online connections. Where can I do that here on superuser.com?
To adhere to the quality standards of this site, I will not describe what I have already ...
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What makes a question "specific to corporate IT support"?
I encounter many problems every day where I work. Some of them I can't find the answer to, and eventually some of them get posted on Superuser by myself.
Of course, I don't bother mentioning I'm ...
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rqna.net appears to mirror all SE content without credit
I can't remember where it is I'm supposed to report this, but since I frequent Superuser over most other SE sites, I figured I'd post it here:
http://www.rqna.net/ appears to mirror content from most ...
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Question ban warning although I haven't yet asked anything
If I go to Ask Question on Super User I get this message displayed:
Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more.
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Please help reopen "What was scientifically shown to support productivity when structural organizing/accessing file and folders?"
Consensus: I agree with: "Workflow involving computers would be less SU and more Productivity"
If that won't work I'll try CSTheory.SE and Skeptics.SE, if that won't work I'll complain at ...
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How do you ignore a certain user on Super User?
So, I want to ignore questions for certain users from my Questions/Unanswered feed. How do I do that?
The main reason for this kind of feature is that not everything that annoys me is against the ...
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How can i get reputation if i am not permitted to answer and participate in superuser network?
I have a problem with the Super User (and Stack Exchange) account limitation system. Currently I am not allowed to answer in any question. They say I need to reach 50 reputation points.
The problem ...
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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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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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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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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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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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How to create image thumbnails?
When I upload images to SU it's usually to showcase some error message or some dialog box. However, most of the time, the uploaded images are just too big. Especially when I write answers with step-by-...
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Are smartphone questions permitted on Super User?
The Super User FAQ states that superuser.com is for asking questions related to computer hardware and software.
Is asking iPhone or android questions allowed?
EDIT: Maybe the real question is: do we ...
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Can we or can we not discuss DRM removal?
I wanted to ask a question about removing DRM from content I own, so I researched the issue here on Meta. I came across Is discussion of techniques for removing DRM permitted? which seems to have a ...
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How to deal with spam+answer?
We have spammers on the site.
Normally, you vote them down + flag: spam.
However, if the spammer also self-answers their own post with an answer (that is also spam btw), what do we do to the answer?
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This is an OpenID we haven't seen before
My account works pretty well on the other three sites.
But when I log on to Super User, I get:
This is an OpenID we haven't seen before: [openid]
What gives?
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Tag rename request: [excel] -> [microsoft-excel] & [powerpoint] -> [microsoft-powerpoint]
This question has been superseded by Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags?.
At the time of writing this, there are 722 questions tagged as excel & 161 questions tagged as powerpoint
I ...
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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 is a question defined as “Too Localised”?
This question covers an earlier deleted meta question regarding configurations in a more general way.
The official reason for closing a question as "Too Localised" is:
This question is unlikely to ...
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Stewardship of the byobu tag
A friend of mine writes Byobu and prefers to use stackexchanges rather than the Launchpad Answers feature. However there are 77 questions worth of decent content there. He'd like to move over to using ...
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Does bounty apply to a CW question?
On this question the OP opened a bounty, however the question is Community Wiki. Should bounty's still apply to these questions?
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To clarify I am trying to determine if the bounty will actually ...
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Where do I see my rejected suggested edits?
According to my suggested-edit stats, I have had one suggestion rejected.
Where can I see that rejected edit?
I looked in my user "Activity" tab and didn't see it. I can filter by "suggestions" but ...
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Why is a question on Inkjet refill Off Topic for Superuser?
How do I refill a CD887A inkjet cartridge?
My question is on Inkjet Printers and how to refill them with ink(a very common operation).
The Wikipedia definition of Computer Hardware includes printers....
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Really cool spambot behaviour
We have a series of spambot questions
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/42353/automate-mac-app-store-installs-upgrades legit question off apple.se
https://superuser.com/questions/435721/...
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Best ways to get questions re-looked at?
I recently looked at the questions I had asked earlier and found that they were worded improperly. So I reworded them the best I could. However I have found that when I reword a question (to improve ...
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"Answer your own question"? Surely you jest! What next, "fix my own plumbing"?
I went to post a question on installing Windows 8 on my ARM-based tablet, only to find myself confronted by this presumptuous checkbox:
If I knew the answer, I wouldn't be asking! What reason is ...
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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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When I flag a post, where does it get sent?
I'm a little confused as to what happens to a post when I flag it. Recently I flagged a question as "low quality". It was declined, and the reason that was given was that "flags should only be used to ...
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Is this "Chat with an expert" a new items on SE sites?
I have noticed just today that there is a banner that will pop up now and again when I am on SU.
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Is this something new?
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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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User was removed and I get negative points?
I have this in my reputation tab within my account.
Why have I been penalized for a user being removed? Is this justified? To me, the reputation shouldn't be affected.
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How do I turn off the pop-ups that appear everytime I mouse-over a tag?
Title says it all, I find it incredibly distracting and it's frequently difficult to get them to go away once they've appeared.
Doubt if it's relevant, but I'm using Firefox on Windows.
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How to search for duplicates efficiently?
In my experience the search box in Close as duplicate dialog is almost useless.
For example we have a canonical malware removal question. Its score is 454 as I'm writing this. It has over a dozen ...
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How long does a ban from editing after too many rejected edits last?
I did some edits to remove noise (e.g. https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/541897) in the "spirit" of askubuntu.com (where such an edit would be approved with 95 % probability in my ...
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Please allow me to ask questions again, after a year of being blocked
I added a bounty to a question, lost 50 reputation points and found out I was no longer able to add comments under the question I placed a bounty on. Because of that I was not able to reply in ...
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How do I remove an open ID?
I tried to move my OpenID from Google to Google Apps and, probably as a result of not following the instructions carefully enough, I now have a primary OpenID which points to my Google Apps account ...
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Accepted answer is at the bottom, is that a bug?
On the Super User question Any command line tool checking windows domain password?, I noticed that the accepted answer was listed at the bottom.
Is that a bug?
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Bypassing new user restrictions?
Look at revision 4 of this question. How was the user (with only 1 rep) able to insert images? (He claims a mod has granted him image posting privileges.)
Looks like he copied over the stack.imgur....
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What kind of syntax is used to specify a button?
I see people use it but I do not see it listed in the markdown help nor in the toolbar.
Looks like this:
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Powershell and Batch syntax highlighting not working logically
Syntax highlighting for both Powershell and Batch works if specified manually in an HTML comment, but not via a code block:
Doesn't Work: (code block)
```bat
```powershell
Works: (HTML comment)
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Oops, I think I managed to dispute my own flag!
So, funny story:
I was reviewing Late Answers earlier this week, and came across this one:
It looked more like a comment than an answer, but I wanted to see the other answer referenced here just to ...
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Cannot ask question with Korean in it?
I tried to ask a question about Korean fonts and copied some text directly into the question box. The following image appeared, though I moved the red box beneath the question to make the aspect ratio ...
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