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Too many [options] to choose from
There are a lot of questions tagged with options. It's extremely meta, and there are no "options" experts that would benefit from a tag like this.
I suggest burninate, and black list.
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How does one become a top contributor and solves computer problems independenly?
Superuser is a great site, there are lots of kind, enthusiastic people here willing to help others who are in need. But I wonder how do I go about solving computer problems on my own and become a ...
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Why don't people upvote when browsing the site?
I've been on the StackExchange boards for quite some time now and it seems that people don't upvote other's answers anymore when browsing the site. At least from my experience.
Let's take this ...
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Will iPad be acceptable subject matter for Super User? I guess not?
Will an Apple tablet device (iPad) be a "computery" enough subject for questions on Super User?
I plan to get one, and since I've never owned an iPhone or anything similar, I'm sure I'll have some ...
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Recommending own products
What's our stance on relevant product recommendations? The paragraph in the FAQ is clearly not enough in this case.
As a recent example, a developer of an Outlook plug-in/addon started answering ...
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Are iPhone, iPod and iPod Touch questions computer related (Super User)?
I would think these devices are computer related enough for inclusion on Super User (I'd even say they were computers). Why are there 50 questions tagged iPod on superuser.com but this one gets ...
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Is it okay to inform users to stop promoting Apple.SE when a question is fine to stay here?
Now that we see a quite large amount of OS X Lion questions here on Super User, I've seen people telling the OP to go to ask on Ask Different.
Of course, the folks at Ask Different want their site ...
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Why did my edit that fixed several spelling errors get rejected as superfluous?
Here is the edit in question. It was rejected for the reason
This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either ...
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Post was edited after I flagged for review
Yesterday, I came across an "answer" that was not an answer, so I flagged it as such. Shortly after, it was edited into an actual answer. The flag was declined with the reason "a moderator reviewed ...
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Using superuser.com to warn my own users
In 2 days from now, users of legacy versions of our client-side software will no longer be able to login due to forced SSL setup update server-side. the error message will be cryptic. Also, we don't ...
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Are hypothetical questions okay, or do I need to have an actual problem?
I want to be able to contribute to the site, but a lot of the time I'm not sure how to communicate on the right level, and I don't want to cause problems just so I can fix them and have dialogue on ...
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Rat's nest of tags
Raystafarian recently posted a number of tag cleanup requests:
Be done with [gtd]
What to do with [to-do]
It's time we managed [time-management]
and a tag synonym request: Tag Synonym request: [tag:...
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Should answers suggesting a tool that is no longer available be flagged?
While reviewing a different answer to the same question, I noticed this answer:
The answerer is providing a solution using a software they wrote themselves, but the link to that software has gone ...
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Should reviews limit be increased?
The number of posts to be reviewed does not stop growing.
Where once it was possible to clear these posts to zero, today that number has passed 700,
and it was lately standing even at more than 800.
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Girl, you're a mess: [images] needs a makeover
This is a plea to add images to the tag-cleanup agenda. It was discussed tangentially in the comments on this meta question from over two years ago, but no firm plans were made to attack this massive (...
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Superuser vs Unix/Linux vs Ubuntu
If I have a question about Ubuntu, I now have 3 places I could take it to:
https://superuser.com/
https://unix.stackexchange.com/
https://askubuntu.com/
It seems to me that Ubuntu is a subset of ...
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The Super User Blog -- now officially blessed!
Great job on the blog!
After a call today with Ivo, we decided that the Super User Blog is now sufficiently awesome to be highlighted in the footer! You'll note that the blog link in the Super User ...
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Merge Request: [visual-studio-code] and [vscode]
I would like to propose making vscode a synonym of visual-studio-code.
Questions regarding Visual Studio Code are actively posted under both the visual-studio-code and vscode tags. There is no ...
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Why was this OP's self-answer converted to a comment?
This post: OrangePi Zero 3 once you have installed and booted a OS from micro SD card you can't eventually boot any different OS
OP found out that their issue stemmed from the hardware publisher ...
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Merge "jabber" and "xmpp"
jabber and xmpp are synonyms on Stack Overflow. They should be synonyms on Super User also.
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You like them hats? [closed]
Last year around Christmas time arQAde had a little promotion in which they awarded hats for gravatars for completing basic tasks around the site.
Here's a link to the promo from last year (and a ...
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Three free video cards for Valued Community Members(tm)
I've been doing some upgrading, so this means I have some extra PCI Express video cards. They are not too shabby, either.
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5870 1GB
ATI 5770 1GB
Now, the two 5870 cards are still ...
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I want to check a best answer for the post I did before as a guest at Stack Exchange
The other day, I posted a question as a guest at the site of Stack Exchange. Some users answered for me, and I wrote "Thank you". But I forgot to decide the best answer at that time.
Now, I ...
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Should users suggest technical edits?
Recently, I received this answer and a comment asking me to run a particular command to get the precise Last Modified timestamp of a file:
wmic datafile where name="c:\\foo.txt" get lastmodified
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Should we add a "no shopping recommendation" clause to the Super User FAQ?
As discussed several times, shopping questions are off-topic on Super User.
They are too specific, related to a particular time, a particular place, and are also open to subjectivity (advising "which ...
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OP edited question substantially after answer(s) were posted
Yesterday, for the second time in the past three months, I answered a question,
only to get a response from the OP saying, in effect,
This answer was correct when you posted it.
I’ve changed the ...
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Are we [licensed] for all this?
I think license-key and product-key should be synonyms. There's also software-activation.
I also don't see why the 12 volume-license questions aren't just tagged with license given you can get volume ...
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Please stop migrating crap
Please only migrate good, but otherwise wayward questions. Latest exhibit is this question:
Facebook open graph html5 audio
I have a system that share on facebook a flash audio player, but the flash ...
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Super User Moderator Cards
We recently printed some business cards for our Stack Exchange employees and they turned out great.
It got us thinking: our sites' moderators have been working hard to keep our sites high quality for ...
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What to do with "Which Linux Distro for my Old PC" questions of super-user
We have a number of questions on SuperUser, asking which Linux distribution to use on the poster's old PC, and giving specs of said old PC.
A number of these questions have been closed as Duplicate. ...
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag
The player tag feels like a classic meta tag, and one likely to be misused. I saw it in use for a question what seems to be a glorified cd player but could refer to audio, video or other software that ...
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Migrating Android questions
Thank you for migrating questions about Android devices to Android Enthusiasts. I know they're off-topic here and we're happy to help folks at the site dedicated to the devices.
However...
Please be ...
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Should we keep stretching the meaning of [stretch]?
This is about stretch. It's the code name of the current stable Debian release, and it's also a tag on the main site.
Most of the usage seems to be about debian-stretch -- there are 19 questions ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2015
The dawn of a new year, 2015, now approaches, or has already approached, either way it means that it is now time to reset our Community Promotion Ads!
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community ...
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Should we edit out spam from spam posts?
An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content:
UTTER SPAM
Please delete me.
I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content,...
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Re-assign accepted answer years later?
A few years ago I asked Remove or prevent sidebar from opening by default on Adobe Reader and received a superb response.
A recent update to the software in question nullifies this accepted answer ...
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Are hardware (port, cable, etc.) visual identification questions allowed or not?
Are hardware (port, cable, etc.) visual identification questions allowed or not? Specifically when it's basically just "What's this port?" and a picture.
Examples:
What is a name of this port? And ...
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Which proper action should be taken to handle this suspicious post?
Recently I see through this question:
How to paste text into input fields that block it?
There is a late answer includes a link which it looks to be suspicious:
From what I read in other site meta ...
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What steps can I take to check and improve lower quality questions?
It is sometimes unclear in which way a question should be handled. What can I do to check why excactly it doesn't meet our standards? What could I do to inform the user and improve it to be of higher ...
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Super User in Portuguese
As you may know, Stack Overflow in Portuguese is a huge success. Now, it is time to expand the idea and get our hands at the Super User in Portuguese, right now on Area 51.
Stack Exchange team has a ...
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Since when are software recommendations off-topic?
I want to take discussion away from Daniel's previous post.
Here's my point: I've always been under the impression that software-recommendations were absolutely fine on Super User.* Now, obviously, ...
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You're fired: Burn the [position] tag
position seems quite meta - no useful description, and no consistency, and it will not help experts in "positioning" find questions, in my opinion. I vote to fire it
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Why are safety and security synonyms?
In the first lesson in my information security class I learned how bad the German term "Sicherheit" is, which can be translated to either security or safety, which makes it hard to distinguish between ...
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Is Tumbleweed badge an achievement or otherwise?
Lately two of my questions earned me a tumbleweed badge?
Does this mean my questions don't make sense and I need to improve them to attract more attention?
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Should you ask/answer your own questions to make a public KB?
I wonder if it's in the spirit of the site, or if my questions will get down-voted to oblivion, were I to answer my own question as I post it. My intent is to build some sort of public KB; stuff which ...
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Site Design Updates
A major design update IS NOW LIVE!
Most of the changes are not visible; these tweaks go along with recent updates that were made to Stack Overflow:
We are moving the site's CSS to a newly refactored ...
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A useful question was put on hold after six years due to software recommentation, how to respond?
I've been pondering this for the last couple of days. I was researching ways to verifiy ripped audio files and found this question which I found very useful. I thought it was a good sensible question....
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2012 Community Moderator Election
The 2012 Community Moderator Election is now underway!
Community moderator elections have three phases:
Nomination phase
Primary phase
Election phase
Most elections take between two and three weeks,...
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I am getting a “You are currently banned from flagging…” message but no clear end for this ban is given
Title says it all. I went to flag something as SPAM on the main Super User site recently and got a message (see screenshot below) that states, “You are currently banned from flagging…”
Okay, fair ...
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