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Ambiguous Tag: "atom"
Current status:
The tag atom in its current form is used for both:
The Intel Atom CPU architecture
The Atom standard for XML-based web feeds
Resolution:
There already is an intel-atom tag. I've ...
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Change to the bounty system
I think the bounty system is flawed slightly. Currently if you don't assign the bounty to a user before the time expires half will go to the user with the most up votes. Even if you do award the ...
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What happens to flag weight when 2 users flag the same answer?
What happens if I flag an answer (or question) and another user does it at the same time (before the flag is addressed by a mod)?
If it's for a valid reason and the post is deleted (moderated) - the ...
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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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Why are late answers allowed?
Why are new users allowed to post late answers to questions from so long ago? Most of the times it's not even useful and it clutters up the Top Questions page.
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Is it sometimes too easy to identify a downvoter?
I once asked on meta stackoverflow - should downvoters be identified...
Should downvoters be identified?
An unpopular idea, understandably given the possibility of a petty downvoting war.
The thing ...
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Destroying users does not delete answers posted by other users, even though the question has been deleted
The title may seem a bit weird, let me explain.
While going through some questions, I found a spammer network about 5 users with each of the users posting answers on others' questions.
Besides ...
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political downvoting unrelated to a question?
Is anything ever done when some people downvote things to make some kind of point that is unrelated to the question?
I made a comment that a question "What is a hostname" doesn't deserve 7 votes, and ...
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Content of low quality posts is shown as "1"
The content of several posts is shown as "1". These appear to all be candidate low quality posts with a negative score on the review page:
Opening the post and clicking edit reveals the proper ...
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"It does not meet our quality standards" <--- huh? Seriously?
I just tried submitting this question:
64-bit Executable Packer
Is there a good, free packer out there for 64-bit executables?
I'm looking for something like UPX, except that UPX doesn't seem to ...
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How do I make the distinction between editing an answer to add content (detail) vs. just answering that question?
I have a question that has the right answer, but it's not very detailed:
How do Optical/Laser Mice work?
I'm at a dilemma here, I want to give the answerer the rep that he deserves as he is correct, ...
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Top Questions of the Week #19
Now we're into post 19 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Question incorrectly marked as a duplicate...
I just posted this question:
How can I control my Mac remotely?
It specifically asks how I can remotely control my Mac.
It was subsequently closed and marked as an "exact duplicate" of this ...
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How do I comment on a post?
I've had several answers deleted because they were more on the order of comments. When I look for a "comment" button on a question or answer there's nothing to be found. I've assumed that I simply don'...
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Question migrated to Meta.SuperUser has incorrect URL in the Global Inbox permalink
Soon as a question is posted on meta, diamond mods get a notification of that in their inbox.
I just migrated a question from superuser.com to meta.superuser.com and found that the question ...
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How can I become "Fanatic" and earn gold medal on superuser.com cheating? [closed]
I would like to get a gold medal on superuser but I'm not very constant so I often forget to login and my day count goes again to zero.
I have servers working 365 days so I look for a good idea to ...
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A way to send an alert to downvoters that an edit has been made to the post
Would it be be possible to make something that would alert downvoters of an answer that the post they downvoted has changed?
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Top Questions of the Week #18
Now we're into post 18 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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'Lost' tag is meaningless
This is on 8 questions, and I just saw it used as recently as today. This seems like the definition of a meta tag to me and should probably go away, yes?
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Do we need the "fastboot" tag?
The Super User homepage just turned light blue for me, due to lots of hard-drive tags (which I have marked as a favourite). The reason was that a user had added the fastboot tag to a bunch of posts.
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Migrating questions to the Ubuntu or Linux/Unix Stack Exchange sites
I just realised that there are Stack Exchange sites for Ubuntu and Linux/Unix.
Why aren't all the Linux/Unix/Debian etc questions on Super User getting migrated there?
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Should duplicate answers posted within a short time frame be flagged?
Lets say there are two answers with the same content on the same question. Should the second one get flagged? This has happened to me, and I sent a flag. Want to know if it was the right thing to do.
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Should answers be posted as comments if we are not sure of the answer?
I notice that a lot of comments are really answers to questions - or at least could be considered answers to questions - should "one" submit a comment instead of a question when "one" is a little ...
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Is using British spelling discouraged?
I wanted to fix a typo in the title of this question when I saw that in the question body behaviour had been edited to behavior by another user.
Is this necessary? Should I (we) start to think about ...
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Stylesheets do not display on mobile sites
Since the past day or two, the mobile editions SU/MSU are being shown without the stylesheet.
This happens on Android stock browser as well as Dolphin HD. Clearing cache has made no difference
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A new Q&A site to discuss ethical issues of the day?
I'm looking for a site that allows people to create and answer questions reguarding legal & ethical issues. For example, the tape-recording of classrooms...
Although the only Stack Exchange ...
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Comment vote equilibrium: Ability to vote down
We can vote up and down for Questions and for Answers, but we can only vote up for comments. As some comments are worthy of down votes, this is a feature suggestion to add the ability to vote down on ...
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How to undo comment vote
When I inadvertently click to vote up a comment, I realise I cannot click to undo it. Is there a way to undo the comment vote?
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Why is code highlighted in preview, but not in the actual post?
I'm editing my answer to this post and wonder why code blocks are highlighted in the editor's preview, but not in the answer itself. Is it a bug? I don't remember ever having seen code blocks ...
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URL href in comments didn't work this once
Recording Skype conference calls on OSX?
Why the link on my comment on the above link wasn't highlighted?
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Related or synonymous tags: [monitor] and [screen] [duplicate]
The tag screen appears to be a mix of
the same topics as monitor
GNU Screen (which has its own tag gnu-screen)
Should something be done about this? Perhaps separating the two into monitor and gnu-...
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Top Questions of the Week #17
Now we're into post 17 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Why was the question "Why are there 8 bits per byte?" closed?
TL;DR: I'm looking for opinions on why this question should be open or closed.
Answer: I now understand why it has been closed: It is not a real problem because it has no practical use.
https://...
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Why do old questions without any apparent activity get marked as active?
Why is it that some old questions will show recent activity yet when looking at the question page, nothing indicates any change?
For example, How to combine with openvpn, dynamic-ip? has its last ...
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Do comment upvotes affect your rep?
When your comment is upvoted, does it increase your reputation or does it not have any effect on it?
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Is giving a shopping recommendation prohibited?
I understand that questions that ask for a shopping recommendation are off topic. However, after reading this answer, a question came up: is giving a shopping recommendation in response to such a ...
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Moderation of duplicates here vs SO
On Stack Overflow moderators tend to not close duplicates quite so brutally as they do on Super User. For reasons such as:
The asker may pick a new answer.
New answers may be better.
Time affects ...
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How do we want to test Hyperthreading performance boosts for the SuperUser Blog?
For the Super User Questions of the Week #15 the highest voted answer was How much speedup does a hyper thread give? (in theory).
While we should be looking at what theoretical boost Hyperthreading ...
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Horizontal tabs in code blocks are a little broken
As the title says. Tabs are not 8 spaces from the beginning of the code block, but rather 8 spaces from the beginning of the line, making them 4 spaces short.
Current display:
$ lsb_release -a
LSB ...
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What should Super User Blog put as a general bio for Lifehacker?
Lifehacker is interested in reposting some of our material on their site. They've asked what bio should we add to the posts? This is what I replied with but I wanted to get everyone's opinion/...
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What should be the mission statement for The Super User Blog and how to promote/explain Super User with it?
The Super User Blog Post Factory has been steadily running for a while now, producing awesome and interesting posts for all you Super Users out there!
Now is the time for the mission statement ...
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Top Questions of the Week #16
Now we're into post 16 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...
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Should we have a Q/A on setting PATH and environment variables?
Questions about setting environment variables and/or the PATH are very common, I guess, and in most cases the answers are the same.
There is a CW answer on how to set the PATH on Windows, but as far ...
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Time to delete the eBook reader questions?
We have a few questions about eBook readers that I think could be deleted. Most are OT and only invites things like this: Why was this question closed?
kindle 33 15 questions
nook 3 0 questions
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Why was this question closed?
https://superuser.com/questions/284021/remove-documents-from-main-library-on-kindle
I think this is a legitimate question about a piece of software (the Kindle's OS) which was abruptly closed by a ...
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Can someone write a good Q/A on port-forwarding?
I think we need a question where we have gathered (router-agnostic) good advice on how to set up port-forwarding on a home network.
Then we could close questions like this and point it to our port-...
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What happened to my question
I asked a question last night about having lost a domain controller without a backup, and trying to recover access to my user info.
But I can't find any record of the question at all, nor any ...
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Retag/synonym request: "webbrowser" -> "browser"
It seems like the webbrowser (5 questions) tag needs to be merged into and become synonymous with browser (702 questions) (per the definition of the latter tag). I'd do it manually, but I can't ...
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Are user-level troubleshooting questions appropriate?
Questions like: When Abode Reader plugin attempts to open web documents in IE8, sometimes a blank dialog box appears and the document fails to open.
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Top Questions of the Week #15
Now we're into post 15 of the "Top Question" of Super User in the Super User blog. Please post and vote for your favorite question for this week.
Please post any question that you feel is of worth ...