Questions tagged [support]
A request for assistance from community, moderators, or staff with one of the site's features
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Cant click edit button
I am a new user to SU. I was reading questions when i cam across a error in the text. I wanted to edit the text to correct it but the edit button is not clickable. Why so???
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What does the number of title bar reflect on SuperUser?
I am seeing this number in the title bar of my browser when I log into Super User. This is second day running that it shows up in the title bar. What does it represent? Neither is it the number of ...
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what does clicking on a star "This is a favourite question" do? [duplicate]
I have noticed a star below the up & down vote buttons that says "This is a favourite question (click again to undo)"
what does clicking on a question's star "This is a favourite question" do? ...
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What privileges are needed to re-open an "on hold" question?
I have been trying to figure out how to mark an "on hold" question to be re-opened.
https://superuser.com/questions/871465/build-a-modern-pc-using-a-dell-dimension-4300-case
This question was put on ...
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How to explain this is not duplicate question?
If my question is marked as duplicate, then how could I explain that my question is different by the previous one? And lift the duplicate market?
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Edit is disabled? [duplicate]
I noticed that the Edit button is disabled (greyed out and not clickable) when viewing posts:
I'm having trouble locating information on why that might happen (Googling is returning lots of ...
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How to check what the close reason is?
Situation
I just asked a question and someone voted to close it.
Question
How do I find out what the reason was?
Research
I saw somewhere (see screenshot in this question) that when voting to ...
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What is the order of candidates in 2014 moderator election?
Within the election process a set of candidates is presented to vote for:
SuperUser candidates tab.
What is the order choosen to present all the candidates?
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Why not use IP address for images?
I was trying to insert a link to an image in my question, but it says
Links cannot contain <IP address> (try a nonnumeric domain or wrap it in a code block)
Because it should show up as an ...
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How can a user find out their quality control rating?
While reviewing some first-post questions and answers, I happened across one of the quality control items (good answer, so I upvoted, and was told that it had been a quality control test).
So, I'm ...
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How do you show the left single quote in code?
I have single quote inside my inline codes. Something like, "echo [single back quote] cat file.txt[single back quote]", where the whole thing within double quotes need to be shown as code. How do I ...
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Discrepancy in reputation viewed in Summary and Reputation tabs
When I view the Summary tab in my profile, it is showing +55 reputation points for this answer: https://superuser.com/a/590146
When I view the same answer in the Reputation tab in my profile, or if I ...
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stackexchange websites keep asking for my proxy authentication
Does this happen to anyone else? I'm behind a proxy at work and every few minutes I have to enter the proxy authentication when I'm stackexchange websites. This doesn't happen to most other websites ...
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How can we bring a closed question to immediate moderator attention?
How can I bring the question for reopening to moderators attention?
As if my question is to be closed we used to flag a question and it gets immediate moderator attention, how can a user whom got ...
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Edited my profile and system is refusing my email
So, today I tried to edit some settings(name, website and description) of my superuser profile(and consequently all another stackexchange accounts)...
Everything goes OK but when I tried to save, it ...
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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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My Gravatar won't change
I changed my Gravatar a couple of weeks ago through my profile options on this site. Despite clearing my cache and trying alternative browsers (Firefox, Chrome) and computers (Windows and Linux), the ...
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How can I get the Suffrage badge? The number doesn't change in accordance with the votes I have casted
How can I get the Suffrage badge? The number doesn't change in accordance with the votes I have casted.
I have casted many upvotes and downvotes today, on questions and answers of different users, but ...
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Where do I ask this followup question? Web app or extension development
Reviewing Firefox Extensions - When was it installed? has an answer that with a bit of manual processing answers my question. However I'm not satisified with this solution and want an easy to read ...
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Want to contribute useful answer to old question, but has low quality lock despite only 3 answers
Recently, I've developed a solution for bulk searching excel spreadsheets for keywords, after doing research on various sites, including superuser, and finding there was no real universal solution, I ...
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Why was this First Post deleted even if it does not deserve deletion?
I was reviewing First Posts today and stumbled on this answer as a review audit. To me, it seems like such an answer would be allowed as:
it isn't spam or offensive,
it is an answer, as it eventually ...
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Question tagged as (maybe) a duplicate
I asked this question. A note of a type I'm not familiar with now appears at the top:
This question may already have an answer here:
How do I mask the Firefox browser signature? 4 answers
I didn'...
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Review "This post is locked"
I had a problem when trying to edit a new users post in reviewing. Any time I attempted it said "this post is locked". Anyone know why?
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Help me tag my question?
I'm not sure what I should tag my question with, so I am hoping that I can find someone to retag it: https://superuser.com/questions/499860/sqlfiddle-where-can-i-see-the-result-of-my-query.
I also ...
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How to select upvote arrow for a comment in Stack Exchange using Windows 8 tablet?
I am unable to select the upvote arrow for a comment on Stack Exchange sites using my Windows 8 Surface tablet. It seems that there is no equivalent to mouseover via a tablet. Is this currently ...
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Super User is not displaying my correct reputation?
My stats as seen on stackoverflow
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 90 rep 10
Programmers 1 rep 2
stats as seen on SuperUser
Super User 98 rep 5
Stack Overflow 80 rep 10
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When I go back to the Ask Question page after logging in, I'm logged out?
Created a question. Then found out I'm not logged in. Tried logging in using the link at the bottom. Clicked on MyOpenID. Was redirected to MyOpenID. Got it wrong. Got back. Click on "other options". ...
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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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SU Retag Request: [internet] <-> [networking] <-> [connection]
We might want to consider migrating between the similar and perhaps duplicate tags:
web
internet
networking (I proposed network -> networking here)
connection
All questions of internet could be ...
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How can I improve my first question?
I have a question about my Super User post: How to create a PXEboot for tails OS?
I'm new to this site I find very helpful and of very good quality.
How can I improve my first posted question?
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Answers to questions but no acceptance or votes
I've been trying to work up a decent points score on Super User, but it's very difficult. Not necessarily because I can't write answers, but because there seem to be a very high proportion of people ...
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Reputation decreased but not shown in history
I'm pretty sure yesterday I had rep. 1,597. Today, I have 2 points less, 1,595. I wanted to make sure that I didn't mess up with some answer and see which one was it, so I went to my profile and ...
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Did I just get serial-upvoted?
I know that my title might be laughable but it just seems very odd that all those upvotes came in at once.
Was there a lag in the notification system?
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Add google-cloud-platform, google-compute-engine tags
Can someone please add the following tags to Super User:
google-cloud-platform
google-compute-engine
I noticed several questions with these tags on Stack Overflow are being closed or put on hold ...
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Is there any way to provide feedback to proposers and reviewers of editors?
A user kindly proposed this edit, and two other users approved it:
https://superuser.com/revisions/308130/5
Despite the facts that it contains erroneous formatting (it puts the code backticks around ...
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Error when trying to access a question
I get the following error whenever I try to access a specific question:
EDIT: I can access the question again normally now. Was there a temporary hiccup on the server?
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Should my question be migrated to Super User or not?
I asked this question. Should it be migrated to this site since it's about drivers and hardware or should it stay on unix.stackexchange.com?
I didn't know where to ask it, I picked a place randomly.
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Undelete own question [duplicate]
I just deleted my own question
Create Recovery Console disk
Can I undelete this? I have been able to undelete answers before. Below an answer is a button for undelete. I am looking for a similar ...
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upvoting and reputation
I was under the impression that upvotes on an answer would yield reputation; However, I have noticed that I have received two upvotes on an answer, but I did not receive reputation. Also, I noticed ...
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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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Flagging statistics omissions
The picture below shows my question.
426 = 417 + 8 + 1
3 != 2
7 != 3 + 1
As far as I know, there are a few things that can happen to flags.
They are marked helpful
They are marked disputed
They are ...
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Request to reopen question 986199
My question on the main site: How much data (MB) does a one-hour Zoom call use for each participant? was closed for being "not about computer hardware or software".
According to the FAQ (What topics ...
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Need to ask this question. Where do I ask this?
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I have a HP Touchpad with Windows 10 Home Edition. I forgot the admin password. Now I cannot do system restore. After I reboot and hit F2, it takes me to a system information page. I do not see an ...
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Why is my firewall question off-topic?
Question is Block TCP/UDP high-latency connections
I thought it clearly fits "personal and home computer networking" category, as listed in Help Center.
Other questions on intersection of gaming and ...
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Why is this question downvoted so much?
Why could be a likely reason that this question is being downvoted so much? I tried my best to improve the question (in the Update) but I am still not sure whether this helps.
Is there a way to ...
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Recommended file hosting service
I understand that sharing personal file host links shouldn't be endorsed, but there are instances when this is mandatory.
The website hosting the file in my question is closed and Internet Archive's ...
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Questions I asked on Super User are appearing on other websites [duplicate]
I asked my question on Super User but when I search on Google I found some other website showing the same question by me or asked by some other user. These are on:
bighow.org/42237765-...
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Why is Helpful flag count in moderator election different from my profile
I did happen to find that Is there any particular reason why the flag counter on my moderator election nomination is different from what the flag counter on my profile says? has an answer that states ...
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Non-duplicate is marked as duplicate
This question How can I export & import firefox addons settings is marked as duplicate of this Software to export firefox addons but it is not, maybe it should be unmarked?
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Why isn't shell syntax highlighting working? [duplicate]
I've been all over Meta Stack Overflow and the help pages, and frankly I'm just tired of looking now. I've tried <!-- language: shell --> and <!-- language: sh -->, but I can't seem to get ...
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