Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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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?
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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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Could new users get "Beta" badge?
Today I was looking over the badges page for the badges that I could (maybe one day) get. I noticed that "Beta" badge (that is acquired by users that participated on the beta phase of superuser) could ...
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Preview does not accurately represent code
<pre> tags are lined up with my bullet indents in the code preview, but not in the answer.
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Possible spam user "myopic.bones"
A large number of posts from myopic.bones seem to be spam. They include answers to the following questions:
Does e-mail address obfuscation actually work?
Limit Chrome's bandwidth
how to limit ...
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How often do you get the robot prompt? I've gotten it every time for the past week now. . .
I've noticed that I get prompted and asked if I'm a robot every time recently. I'm curious if this was due to my machine or the site flagging me. And this has been on multiple machines, on different ...
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Calculating accept rate
Do open questions with no answers affect my accept rate? I can't calculate it on my own because my rate isn't displayed anywhere I can see, but that's probably another question.
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Clarification of on-topic status [closed]
I don't want to pick on Nestor here, as I think his question is good, but I'm questioning whether it is on-topic.
Let me clarify that I'm not complaining about flag weight, I promise. However, I ...
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Stats for registered and active users?
Today, seeing the "89,480 questions" I just wondered myself why "# Registered users" or "# Active users" (Active means here as the users that logged this month for example) does not appear on Super ...
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Make [segfault] a synonym of [segmentation-fault]
I can't propose this tag synonym directly, but I've noticed that segfault should be a synonym of segmentation-fault. Can someone make this change?
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question closed as exact duplicate, but the referred question appears to be only loosely related
My question was closed as exact duplicate 11 days ago:
batch-rename filenames with numbers to sort alphabetically
For some reason i did not receive any notification about this, so I noticed it just ...
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Suspicious downvote pattern
I have noticed some suspicious downvotes on my questions recently.
Jul 25
-2 23:44 downvote XML, XHTML, SGML and HTML
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-2 51 mins ago downvote GUI editor for editing djvu ...
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Do questions on search engine optimization belong here? If not, where do they belong?
E.g. I want to ask a question like: http://www.quora.com/SEO/If-you-re-use-your-Internet-name-on-numerous-sites-is-there-a-way-to-make-your-name-on-one-site-appear-before-your-name-on-another-site
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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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Some images from i.stack.imgur.com images only show an error message
Some answers in How do you get a shell on a Mac? have images that only show an error from imgur saying: "The image you are requesting does not exist or is no longer available. imgur.com"
Is that ...
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Is link posting broken if the link includes a caret?
I think including links is broken if the valid URL includes a caret symbol ^. See as below this link to Wolfram Alpha for computing 2^25:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2^25
It is a valid URL ...
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Invalid flag but Closed question?
I just flagged this question, got invalid flag and some time later the question was closed? I got -10 flag weight to a closed question? Could someone verify?
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How should we treat questions involving mobile computers like barcode scanners that use Windows Mobile?
UPDATE - I found this proposal over on area51.
It suggests a StackExchange site for Windows Mobile. Go follow it if you want to see this!
I've been using a computer like this at work for the last ...
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Can I add an SE OpenID to my existing profile?
Due to some complications signing in this morning with my Google account, I would like to register for a Stack Exchange OpenID account and add it to my profile. Is this possible? If so, how?
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Suspected spam on remote support software question
2 user accounts have been created and all they have done collectively is redundantly suggest TeamViewer here, which is only a half valid answer given the full scope of the question:
OS X: What remote ...
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How do I switch to using Facebook instead of OpenID while signing in to StackExchange without changing my username?
I had originally signed up with StackExchange (back when it was only StackOverflow) with OpenID, since that was the cool--and in case of SO, the only--thing to do. As time has passed, so has the ...
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What are the criteria for quality standards? Or... How do I get Super User to accept my question?
It seems a rather silly question to ask, but I'm attempting to ask a question on the location of wallpaper files on Windows XP. As always, I've explicitly stated my OS, very specifically spelled out ...
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cancelling a vote after a while
I upvoted a question that looked promising but the questioner just abandoned the question not giving any more info and nobody could answer it because they abandoned it. I'd like to remove the 1 vote ...
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Why can't I register on SuperUser without OpenID?
I left the "register" window open for two days and it never completed.
How can I register without using an OpenID?
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Please align the Excel tags
We lost the battle on excel already, so now it's labeled microsoft-excel, but I see there is still confusion with the version specific tags.
microsoft-excel-2002
microsoft-excel-2003 excel-2003
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Trouble viewing questions with a specific tag - hotkeys in my case
I'd like to view all questions tagged with "hotkeys" but it says something about no questions with an active bounty.
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Maximum voting bug?
I always tend to hit my maximum vote cap of 40 every day. They are not spam votes, but actual votes for good questions and answers as I tend to spend a good part of my day on the site.
Now, as one ...
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Why can't I add a bounty to this question?
I've asked this question a few days ago, and while Jeff's answer is pretty cool, it doesn't really answer my question. So I'd like to add a bounty to maximize the chances of getting a good answer. I ...
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What happens to bounty if there are no answers to the question once the bounty expires?
I have some bounty assigned to a question on a different SE site. This question has been open for 11 days now, and the bounty expires in 3 days. Currently there are no answers, so what would happen to ...
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Mysterious +5 reputation
After perusing SuperUser I came over here to Meta and checked my profile. I noticed I had mysteriously gained +5 reputation putting me up to 106. This is strange because I haven't asked any questions ...
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Who are allowed and there is a way to create badges?
Who actually create the badges system? There are ranked users that can do it? May it one day be possible?
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What happens to flag weight when 2 users flag the same answer?
What happens if I flag an answer (or question) and another user does it at the same time (before the flag is addressed by a mod)?
If it's for a valid reason and the post is deleted (moderated) - the ...
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"It does not meet our quality standards" <--- huh? Seriously?
I just tried submitting this question:
64-bit Executable Packer
Is there a good, free packer out there for 64-bit executables?
I'm looking for something like UPX, except that UPX doesn't seem to ...
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Question incorrectly marked as a duplicate...
I just posted this question:
How can I control my Mac remotely?
It specifically asks how I can remotely control my Mac.
It was subsequently closed and marked as an "exact duplicate" of this ...
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How do I comment on a post?
I've had several answers deleted because they were more on the order of comments. When I look for a "comment" button on a question or answer there's nothing to be found. I've assumed that I simply don'...
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How to undo comment vote
When I inadvertently click to vote up a comment, I realise I cannot click to undo it. Is there a way to undo the comment vote?
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URL href in comments didn't work this once
Recording Skype conference calls on OSX?
Why the link on my comment on the above link wasn't highlighted?
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Why was the question "Why are there 8 bits per byte?" closed?
TL;DR: I'm looking for opinions on why this question should be open or closed.
Answer: I now understand why it has been closed: It is not a real problem because it has no practical use.
https://...
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Why do old questions without any apparent activity get marked as active?
Why is it that some old questions will show recent activity yet when looking at the question page, nothing indicates any change?
For example, How to combine with openvpn, dynamic-ip? has its last ...
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Do comment upvotes affect your rep?
When your comment is upvoted, does it increase your reputation or does it not have any effect on it?
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Why was this question closed?
https://superuser.com/questions/284021/remove-documents-from-main-library-on-kindle
I think this is a legitimate question about a piece of software (the Kindle's OS) which was abruptly closed by a ...
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What happened to my question
I asked a question last night about having lost a domain controller without a backup, and trying to recover access to my user info.
But I can't find any record of the question at all, nor any ...
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Retag/synonym request: "webbrowser" -> "browser"
It seems like the webbrowser (5 questions) tag needs to be merged into and become synonymous with browser (702 questions) (per the definition of the latter tag). I'd do it manually, but I can't ...
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Are user-level troubleshooting questions appropriate?
Questions like: When Abode Reader plugin attempts to open web documents in IE8, sometimes a blank dialog box appears and the document fails to open.
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Why do comments usually get removed from Questions?
For what reasons do comments usually get removed from questions?
What is meant by channel id > 100 in 802.11?
I just disagree with this question being moved from Security.SE to Super User. Doesn'...
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unable to get code block formatted right
look at this answer, at the bottom there is a C code block, I tried formatting with the code sample button, manually, and nothing works, it looks all weird
any idea what I did wrong?
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how to check my questions that have not been answered?
Hi all, is there anyway we can check the questions that we make that we have not marked any answers? (like a filter)
Which section should these questions be at?
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Can a mod resurrect my deleted question
Out of idle curiosity and to see what would happen as a low-rep SU user, I deleted one of my unanswered questions (yes, I know, stupid):
https://superuser.com/questions/278552/improving-windows-7-...
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search all comments made within the last month, and answers, to locate an interesting question?
How do I search all comments within the last month?
I remember an interesting question, and of keywords in it all I recall is 2+ comments had the word project in them. So i'd like to see all ...
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