Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Why is my answer a 'bad answer' and being downvoted? [duplicate]
I supplied an answer in this question :-
Laptop charge 126W for a 120W laptop
and it is being downvoted without comment. Why?
The answer is factually correct, and consistent with what ...
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Improperly deleted answer
RE this answer
User wants to find a "way to get around this 10-lookups-only limit"
The 10 lookup limit is a limit for DNS lookups. Flattening the SPF record to include less DNS lookups and ...
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I have some information on an unknown (according to net) virus / app
I have some information that I would like to share with the community. I posted it on Stack Overflow and have been told to post it here somewhere. Could you point me in the right direction. There is ...
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Always display vote split
Since I made it to 1k reputation (yay!), I can now see the vote split by clicking on the current vote status of a question or answer. Is there any way so that I can always see these when I am logged ...
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OLD question suddenly goes to top of inbox
Thunderbird won't ask for NNTP password—how to fix?
A few minutes ago, this question was shown at the top of my in-box and highlighted as new. I looked and saw that the last change was eight ...
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there is no telegram tag
I was going to ask some question about telegram app and I noticed that there is no telegram related tag!
Please add "telegram" and telegram related (such as telegram-desktop and such) tags.
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Clone (scraper? proxy?) sites metasuperuser.sfczw.com and meta.wwwniche.com [duplicate]
Not sure what these are but I thought I'd bring it up. Searching for a narrow topic brings up the MSU question and two clone sites with the same content. It's not clear to me what these clones are ...
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Please reconsider “Mac OS spell checking” question for reopening
The question How to Improve Mac OS Spell Checking?1
was downvoted and (rightfully) closed as a product request.
It was then edited to make it a solution request rather than a product request.
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Bounty period + grace period ended. Now what?
I have an answer to a question, and my answer has the highest votes and was made during the bounty period. About a few minutes ago, the bounty's 24-hour grace period ended, but nobody seems to have ...
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Can I "up" my question? [duplicate]
What are the ways one could use to make his (old+unanswered) question reappear in some list (Unanswered, active, ...) so that people can see it and maybe answer it?
Thanks.
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How to start a bounty as a reward for a question that's protected?
I ran into a tricky issue on OS X where a windows was being displayed on a second monitor that was not present. I found a question and an answer at Move an off-screen window back on-screen on Mac OS X....
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What to do if you posted a question, but you can no longer test a provided solution? [duplicate]
I posted this question 5 months ago. No one provided an answer and I didnt solve the issue on my own. Since posting it, I had long since forgotten I even asked the question.
Today, someone provided ...
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Suggested Edit 'This item is not reviewable'
I was in the Suggested Edits Review Queue, completed one review and clicked 'Next'. It took a bit of time to get to the next one and this is what it was:
This is obviously supposed to be an audit (I ...
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When posting on super user keep getting "An error occured submiting the question" [duplicate]
I'm trying to post a question on superuser.com but keep getting the message "An error occurred submitting the question" when I click Post Your Question.
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My question has been mistakenly marked duplicate
My question here - https://superuser.com/questions/725545/ - has been marked duplicate to this question - Does installing many programs really slow down Windows?.
To those who say its duplicate, the ...
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Edit has been in review que for over 2 hours
This edit has been stuck there for over two hours. It's a very good edit that improves the question but it's only shown to me in the past 2 hours. I think it's stuck somehow. Can someone look at it?
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How to ask more when a question already exists by other author?
I'd like to ask more in this question What is the "Automatic Maintenance"? in the way that I want to know what EXACTLY is done during maintenance (ie a command/script that shows a full list ...
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Search for answers to questions by specific user, or vice versa
I know of the user:<user_number> and user:me search operators. However, I'm trying to locate something that I'm pretty sure I had included in an answer to a question posted by a certain user.
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How can I ask for a program? [duplicate]
Occasionally I like to ask questions about programs that has the features I´am asking for.
Sometime ago I did a questions like that:
Looking for a program that stores images from the clipboard
But ...
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I'd like to know why my question was closed
I posted a question detailing my problems with Windows 8's File History. I use it for backups and I have a couple of things I'd like it to do, but it fell short. With certain specific needs in mind, I ...
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What does "Super User requires external JavaScript from another domain" mean?
I got the following error message while viewing a question on Super User. It appeared on top of the page.
Super User requires external JavaScript from another domain, which is
blocked or failed ...
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Macbook + Safari / firefox -> javascript alert bug when swiping to previous page
When I start answering a question on superuser, with Firefox 11 on OSX 10.7, then swipe back (two finger swipe using the touchpad on my macbook), I get the following notice. It seems like a javascript-...
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What is the difference between the "unzip" and "extract" tags?
I understand that unzip is referring to decompressing a file that has been previously compressed, but I don't understand the difference between unzip, and extract, considering also that, for example, ...
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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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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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Why did my nickname change [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is my superuser username suddenly user2293 instead of leeand00?
Why has my nickname changed on a few sites in the StackOverflow network, and how can I change them back ?
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help with "opinion based" closing
My question, "SSL error 14090086 "certificate verify failed" in browser and in curl: how to troubleshoot? [closed]" was closed as "opinion based".
Would anyone be ...
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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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Can I block a specific user? [duplicate]
A certain user is being a general pain, and aside from me reporting the user (which I have done) how else can I prevent them from contacting me?
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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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"Research Assistant" tag with problem and can't be reached
I'm reviewing and suggesting tag wiki edits on the last weeks and was suspecting that my tag wiki editions to this badge wasn't change. Today I suggested two tag editions and tested what happend with ...
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How can I post an answer to this question on SuperUser?
I viewed a topic on this site which hasn't really been answered for 4 years:
“How to go to the next/previous picture using the Windows 10 default photo viewer?”
On reading the responses, it gave me ...
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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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Why do I not have the option to vote to delete?
Why do I not have the option to vote to delete? I'm not fussed about deleting, I can vote to close it but, as I have 20k score, I thought I should have these extra options? https://superuser.com/help/...
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Accepted, but not officially accepted
I have seen other questions that suggest solutions, but nothing open-ended or absolute. What are we supposed to do, if anything, when a question is accepted by the OP in comment, but not officially ...
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Find out, why a question was deleted
Why was this question deleted? https://superuser.com/questions/603373/how-do-i-reverse-proxy-etherpad-lite-with-nginx-to-a-subdirectory And can you please undelete it? It sais there:
deleted by ...
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Do mods still merge spam users into the deposit user?
I know that a while ago, instead of outright deleting/destroying newly created users who post spam, they would be suspended and then merged into a single user (https://superuser.com/users/43131/...
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Flag your own question
It's funny that you can not only answer your own question, but also flag it.
Why one would do this? Why this possibility exists at all? Is it a joke?
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Suggested Edits Rejected
I have just done 2 suggested edits, and have had them rejected due to:
This edit is too minor; suggested edits should be substantive improvements addressing multiple issues in the post.
Why is ...
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Email address in profile
How do I control if my email address is shown or not shown (publicly) in my profile page on SU?
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Real Name appearing under user information
I registered with my facebook account (doesn't seem like the best idea now) a while ago. I noticed that my real name appears in my account information. I tried removing it, but it keeps appearing ...
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I thought the accepted answer is always listed first - here it is second. Huh?
How is it possible that this question has the top-voted-but-not-accepted answer listed first, instead of the accepted answer?
What's the easiest way to get text onto a Kindle?
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How Superuser Users profiles are being sorted?
In which basis user profiles are displayed(in Users tab)? For sure they are not random. And there is a number(may indicate some score) under user's name. What is that?
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Can I not delete my own questions, after answers were posted?
I have some questions that are just sitting there, for which I either don't agree with the answer / it doesn't work for me. Can I not delete a question once someone has posted an answer?
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Reputation points from Silver Yearling Badge
Why have the +200 reputation points for my Silver Yearling Badge not been added to my superuser account, but they have been added to all my other linked accounts?
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Why can't I award the bounty to my own answer
I answered my own question, why can’t I award the bounty to my answer or do something to prevent it from being half-awarded to the top-voted answer?
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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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How do you lose -5 rep?
Not that this really matters to me, but the reason isn't obvious, so I'm curious.
In the "Achievements" tool in the page header it shows -5 for yesterday on a 10 month old answer.
Viewing my profile ...
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How to search a user?
I need to have a look at the question of a user, who posted it some weeks ago. I didn't actually remember the question. But I know the user's name. So the only way to find that question is to find ...
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Is there a way who viewed my profile
Could you tell me there is a way who viewed my profile?
I just want to know if there is no function available, could you consider to implement it?
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