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Does each Stack Exchange site keep its own reputation record for your profile?
I have a couple of Stack Exchange profiles, according to my various interests of course. I wonder, does each of these keep its own record of your reputation? For example, on Stack Overflow I have 11 ...
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Question received no rep, but an answer mentioning the question received negative rep; why?
A while back, I asked the question Leading zeros in IPv4 address; is that a no-no by convention or standard?, which in hindsight could possibly have gone on another Stack Exchange, maybe Networking. ...
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Why is my comment locked from editing & how can I modify it?
I have commented on an user's answer to my question here & I wish to modify it
but the edit button is missing/doesn't exist
Why is my comment locked from editing & how can I modify it ...
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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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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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Does Super User have a "could not be reproduced" vote reason?
My primary hunting grounds Ask Ubuntu, Unix & Linux and Vi and Vim have a "could not reproduced" close reason (or something close enough). Does Super User have something similar? I know I can only ...
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Is there a way to search for multiple users?
The search function seems to have a limit of one specified user. Say that I want to find a question where I recall that two particular users were posters (say one posted the question, the other was ...
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Please make this salvageable post not be an LQ review audit
I just failed this Low Quality Posts audit for clicking Edit. The answer contains actually useful information, but a spammy link at the end. I was going to edit out that last line, making it an ...
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How is this question off topic?
https://superuser.com/questions/1028107/fatal-error-when-running-the-game-war-thunder
The purpose of Super User is for asking for help on the topic of hardware issues or software issues. Last I ...
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Did the review process trick me?
I was reviewing First Posts and I got one that looked like a duplicate of another answer. Here's what it showed me after I failed:
https://superuser.com/review/first-posts/492517
However, when I was ...
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What happened to the "Improve Edit" and "Reject and Edit" buttons on this review?
I just reviewed this suggested edit, and while doing so, I noticed that the Improve Edit and Reject and Edit buttons were absent; only Approve and Reject were there. I haven't been suspended from ...
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Bounty option not shown
I don't see the bounty option under the question I asked.
No one has answered yet and I thought if I make a bounty and offered 50 points, people might help more.
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Upcoming events.. a birthday?
Maybe I have been blind for a few years, but this seems.. unique - what's the dealio?
Seems like it would be private -
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How can I login with my account on my wife's computer?
On her computer, my wife is permanently logged into her Google account.
She never uses (or has used) SU.
I want to fix stuff on her computer and access my SU account to ask questions.
I always use my ...
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Blacklist "Muscle" on Super User
The body building spam seems to be relentless and while lot more is blocked, we still see close to 4-5 posts every day about this.
A search for "muscle" indicates that so far there have been 445+ ...
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Should I use Ask Ubuntu or Super User? [duplicate]
If I use Ubuntu 15.10 and I have a question, how would I know to post it on Ask Ubuntu or Super User? Does it make a difference?
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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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Should we, the community, be able to accept an answer on the OP's behalf? [duplicate]
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Is there a way to FLAG an SE\SU Q&A post (any really, but perhaps only for an old one) that's in the unanswered queue\state to a moderator, etc. to indicate there is a clear and ...
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Collaborating on the Super User site blog
I just read Calling all bloggers.... Again today. I am a school student who is really interested in tech and my holidays started today so I think that I might contribute a few articles.
The problem ...
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How can I create just an answer without a question (blog)?
I know this is a question answer forum, but the last 2 years I've been building three systems (2 computers, old and new, running dolphin and a XPenology NAS) and found some very interesting facts. ...
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I have an answer for my "too broad" keyboard question that was closed yesterday - shall we re-open it, or forget it?
So my question What could have caused the * key on my numeric keypad to stop working in Windows 7? got deleted yesterday as too broad. I just voted to undelete it today, because I figured out the ...
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Safe lubricants to use is not primarily opinion based
Please consider reopening What lubricants can be safely added to a laptop fan?
It was closed as "primarily opinion based", but the question is not an opinion-based question: "Are there any lubricants ...
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Automatic downvote spree detection
Is there an automatic downvote spree detection on SuperUser? I just got a notification that I've gotten downvotes on my answers and quite interestingly they're all at the same time period and for ...
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Lets turn the blinking off ... on .. off.. on ... PERMANTENTLY OFF
The blinking tag is used in 18 questions. Mostly about blinking LEDs, cursors and monitors which turn on and off.
I suggest we permanently blink it out of existence.
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Vote to re-open 2 year old question?
I just edited this question, then noticed it was two years old (Community User put it back in a queue).
I need help! PopUp with only OK button
Looks like a perfectly valid question to me. It could ...
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Announcer Badge Question
I have read over the auto-populated questions (when I typed in the Announcer Badge Question title) and other documentation or help I can find and I have some questions specific to the Announcer Badge (...
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Why am I requested to log in again before I can post a question even though I have logged in
I had not learned of Super User community until two days ago when my question was migrated from Software community to Super User community. (I did not remember that I had joined in this community 10 ...
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Victim of serial down voting? [closed]
Very unusual - within 4 minutes I got 3 down votes:
Open file with emacs as administrator on windows
Outlook refuses to send email with non-matching address in cert
Using a firewall to ...
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it is strange that I am probably not a Google+ user yet I can login to stackexchange sites
I don't believe I am a Google+ user and I am trying to minimize my use of Google products. I believe that I took a specific action to ensure I am not a Google+ user at some point in the past. I do use ...
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What is the tag "external" used for and what is "external-drive" used for?
This might be a language problem, but aren't external and external-drive two the same?
If not, could somebody please add a text to both of them?
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What is the tag “optical” used for and what is “optical-drive” used for?
Aren't those two, optical and optical-drive the same?
If not, could somebody please add a text to both of them which explains the difference?
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Extra "Nice Answer" Badge and "Good Answer"?
I've noticed that Super User has granted me two "Nice Answer" badges.
Yet I can only see one answer of my own which would appear to qualify. Additionally, I seem to have a "Good Answer" badge on ...
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When using filter the question are not ordered correctly
I just answered a question asked in 2013. I used a filter to filter out a certain tag and then the unanswered questions. So I took the first in the list thinking it is a recent question.
Why not sort ...
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How long does it take for a badge to be awarded?
I recently completed 1000 reviews under the "Suggested Edits" category, but the badge has not been awarded yet.
How long should users expect to wait for a badge to show up?
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How to include in a comment a call to a user with unicode characters?
I try to add in a comment @Pekka웃.
It pops up an error.
Comments cannot contain that content.
Unlucky.
I remove the last character 웃 and the comment was accepted without any problem...
He answers to ...
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Feature Request- adding "date tags"
There are many questions that have never been answered as they have been stomped on by newer questions. There are also questions where the user has got an answer but it didn't work for him.
My ...
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Please show close votes state for questioner
I would like to see how many close/reopen votes my question currently has.
The ratiocination is such that I can decide how much effort I'm going to put into it, how many people think the same as the ...
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Is there a <kbd> for the windows key?
I know we can use <kbd> to make keyboard short cuts like this ! For example, if I wanted to explain how to open the Run prompt on Windows, which is the Windows key and R, how would this be done? ...
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Are these Fail2Ban, Munin and “Failed password” related questions more appropriate for Server Fault?
While I spend a good chunk of time here on Super User, my day-to-day/work-a-day head is in the Linux server administration world. A lot of times there’s overlap between “power user” needs and server ...
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Is this general printer refill question appropriate?
I asked a general question regarding refilling toner in laser printers. Is this question appropriate?
When refilling toner, why only to half capacity?
SuperUser is appropriate for computer support ...
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What should I do if I find my own solution to my problem?
I have a problem that many seems to have. I found a solution. However, another solution is more informative and I wouldn't be able to find my solution if not because of it.
Wi-Fi not connecting
This ...
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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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Question closed which regards unlicensed software, but does not condone it/ask for help with it
I recently asked this:
https://superuser.com/questions/991161/why-have-black-editions-been-maintained-for-windows-xp-but-not-for-windows-7?noredirect=1#comment1366799_991161
the question was first ...
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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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First ever Contribution deleted?
First time post and provided what I thought was a very much valid and relevant answer to a question. I then took the time to register and validated my email address in the hope that I could become a ...
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*One* answer gets incomplete "flag" menu — cannot flag as VLQ
I was going to flag this answer as “not an answer”
(it’s little more than a bunch of links) when I noticed
that the “flagging” dialog box didn’t include the “very low quality” option:
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Somebody wants to buy my account on SuperUser.com
Somebody wrote me an email because he saw that my account-reputation on SU has risen much in the last month. He wants me to make an offer so he can buy it from me.
I am not sure if this is a serious ...
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What should I do about a question I posted that is not answered?
This question I asked ("How to deleting user data in Windows 7 on shutdown or start up”) is not being answered. What should I do?
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support
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I was banned the past year in 2014. I have a post-ban in which I can't ask any question in superuser.com.
Here are two discussions about my problem:
Am I a victim of any sort of ...
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Sorting Questions by Most Views and Filtering
A few questions about sorting and filtering:
Is it possible to sort questions by the number of views (not votes)? How?
Can I combine sorting (by votes, views) with filters (unanswered, featured)? How?...
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