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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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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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Need positive question record?
My new profile page has indicated my progress towards badges, and the recent one was "curious". The description (screenshot below) says
Ask a good question on 5 separate days, and maintain a positive ...
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Huh ? Can't Post Image
SuperUser says that I can't post an image, and gives this reason...
This shows my current level.
Huh ? Both screen caps were taken from the same screen without reloading.
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How to answer NO to "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?"
I performed a formatting edit to Weird drive popped up randomly. The site is prompting me with "Edits must be at least 6 characters; is there something else to improve in this post?". Since is a ...
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Proposed Question - Supercomputers - Looking on info for the running time of WRF on ES2 (Earth Simulator 2)
I feel this question doesn't fit here - or possibly on any SE. Am I wrong?
Can someone help me find information on "How FAST WRF runs on ES2?"?
We know how fast ES2 runs, and how much memory ...
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Failed audit trying to report apparent bug in review queue
I opened up the SU 'First Posts' review queue just now and was presented with a nicely detailed answer to this question, about whether hibernation would damage RAM. The quirk was, the ID of the ...
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Why was my question moved, and why was it then deleted off of the original site?
I asked a question a while ago on Super User: https://serverfault.com/questions/227152/what-is-a-good-os-to-mess-around-with-xen-dom0
I logged into Super User today to find it had been moved. I don't ...
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Is a "Leave Open" vote an offsetting vote or just lack of a "Close" vote?
What is the Close Votes queue mechanism?:
Two counters, a Close count and a Leave Open count; the first count to reach 5 determines the outcome? (A definitive resolution with a maximum of 9 votes.)
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SuperUser has wrong answer in one of its tests
I was just volunteering some time reviewing First Posts, and SuperUser presented an answer regarding not Broadcasting SSID's. The answer was technically correct, but very misleading. I took my time ...
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Filter out unanswered question with a particular tag
It might look like a duplicate question with Is there any way to see all the questions that are tagged with my favorite tags?, but it is not.
What I'm looking for is a search syntax to filter out ...
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How to fairly assign bounty?
I have a question with bounty here Reverse proxy to put header value as parameter to url with two answers. Each answer seems to me to be solution of 1/2 of my question. Is it possible to split bounty ...
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Where are the canned comments located?
I am looking for a good set of canned comments for use when guiding new users around the site. I have loaded the SE AutoReviewComments plugin for Firefox, and there are good canned responses when ...
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Super User Swag is still wanted
Looking through the sidebar, I found this old question about the Super User mug. I'm wondering if there's any update from the team about making swag available for purchase any time soon? Or what kind ...
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Suggestions re making question less "opinion based"
Can anybody suggest how to make this less "opinion based"?
What features are important in a scanner + sheet feeder for old personal documents
In particular, I'd like to keep the question useful to ...
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Answering your bounty question
I have an open bounty question (qtcreator can't find qt) and solved the problem.
In those cases you answer your own question but mine has open bounty, what will happen to the bounty? I don't ...
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Formatting of multiple quotes ends up showing as a single block
When I make three quotes with an answer under each quote, the editor resolves that as one quote all mushed together. The answers under the first two quotes disappear.
What is the trick to make ...
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would a discussion concerning my emacs fingers growing a bit stiffer be appropriate?
I've been an emacs user for many years. The last couple of weeks I've noticed my fingers loosing their "fluidity" and feeling a bit stiffer (resulting in a lower keys per minute count and more ...
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Is a bittorrent question relevant to superuser.com?
I put up a question which got flagged as being off-topic with it being suggested to edit the question and putting it on superuser.com but before doing that, asking here. Could somebody look at it and ...
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are questions about programs features on-topic
I have a program which mentioned having a feature that's simply not working, is this considered on-topic for this site ? if not what stackexchange site suits it better ?
The program is monodevelop ...
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Code block text coloring not working?
So Sometimes my code will highlight properly and other times, it gets no colors or anything. What gives! I can't find anything on this meta that has discussed this aspect of this issue.
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Why is superuser.com also served on port 8080?
I noticed this while Googling for "Notice removed Draw attention"; all of the superuser.com results have an explicit port in their URL.
Indeed it works.
http://superuser.com:8080/
http://meta....
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windows-task-scheduler and task-scheduler are the same [duplicate]
windows-task-scheduler and task-scheduler have the same description. They should be synonyms or merged.
This is a duplicate of a request from a couple years ago (Tag Synonym request: [tag:task-...
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What happened to the Close queue?
Somewhere in the neighborhood of 600 questions disappeared from the Close queue today. Was there some kind of executive action to clear out certain patterns of questions (like anything older than X ...
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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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Why have I lost reputation?
Ok I am running into a weird issue. Earlier I had 34 or so reputation. Now I have 1 rep. I oddly still have 34 rep on meta.superuser.com. from what I read at https://superuser.com/help/privileges/...
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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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When are posts "deleted or otherwise unavailable"?
Several posts for which the Great Answer badge was awarded were erased (for lack of a better term).
(post deleted or otherwise unavailable)
I didn't think it was possible to completely remove ...
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What happens if a user does not mark the question as solved?
I've seen some questions lately on superuser, which get many answers, but the user who did the question does not mark the question as solved. When I say solved I mean when the user accepts an answer ...
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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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Where to ask questions about Android
Android phones are computers and have power-users who want to make the most of them. Except these power users have been exiled from superuser.com by the evil-tyrant (qq) and left to ask their ...
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Reopen request 855983
I've now fixed the title of my question so it is in line with the topic of home networking:
Can a home PPPoE connection access all websites, regardless of the site infrastructure's MTU settings?
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Migration source question keeps redirecting me to the migration destination
I was the last person to vote to migrate a post on SU, which was migrated to https://serverfault.com/questions/650576/getting-pcs-to-report-to-wsus
The browser automatically forwarded me to the new ...
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Can I get a question I asked with a temp account linked to my real account? [duplicate]
I asked Is it possible to enable System Protection from the command prompt? while my computer was in an Automatic Repair cycle of Doom.
I used a temp account to ask it. Is it possible to get it ...
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Can question author accept a suggested edit that was rejected by reviewer?
I've received a suggested edit to my question which was rejected by a reviewer. Can I still accept it?
The suggested edit was correcting markup of my question. The reviewer rejected it with message "...
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Blue background appears in the sign
When some users write a comment, why there's a blue background on their sign at the end of the comment?
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"questions have not been well-received" warning without negative or deleted questions
I get the warning "Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more." I am struggling to find any cause for this; I cannot find ...
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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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voting up without reputation
I've been voted up 2 times in this question without getting any reputation. Why?
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Load an image in Superuser?
I looked at the superuser help but I'm still unable to know how to load a jpg I created with a screenshot to be pasted in Superuser in order to explain myself better
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can I get my rep back by deleting question?
I asked a question and got some vote downs now I know that I was wrong I wanna delete it, Will I get my rep back?
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Difference between "tab=noanswers" | "questions?sort=unanswered" | "answers:0"
I see at least 3 different ways to view unanswered questions. And they all show different results.
tab=noanswers » 37417 hits
https://superuser.com/unanswered/tagged/?tab=noanswers
questions?sort=...
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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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A site seems to be mirroring Super User
There is a question on Super User that seems to be copied at earthwithsun.com/questions/13942/paint-net-equivalent-for-linux
If you scroll down to the bottom of earthwithsun.com you'll see another ...
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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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A user can't add a comment on the answers of him own bounty, because it requires rep
I'm a frequent user on Stack Overflow** site, and very sporadic on Super User site.
I've reached the +50 rep on Super User site, then I did a bounty because I need to solve a problem.
Problem
After ...
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Need insight on down-voted question
I recently posted this question on Java and Linux:
Need latest Java in Linux environment.
It was downvoted, which often doesn't mean much, but I took another look at it because I thought it was a ...
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Why was a question about SoundCloud moved to Web Applications?
Why was a question asking if there was a stand-alone player for SoundCloud moved to Web Applications?
The question has nothing to do with web applications; it's asking about if desktop software ...
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Why wasn't this question deleted automatically?
Here's the link: https://superuser.com/questions/614234/errorunable-to-acsess-jarfile
As it's downvoted and old, it is supposed to be deleted automatically, but that doesn't happen.
Looks like that'...
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Good question with accepted answer disappeared?
First off, this was a question I answered. And in in my humble opinion it was a good question that dealt with improper DNS name server settings being set on a domain registration, how to diagnose, how ...
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