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Can [problem] be obliterated or merged to [troubleshooting]?
Most of the questions are using problem as a meta tag, can that tag perhaps be obliterated?
Update: I looked through all tags, re-tagged only one to troubleshooting because it was necessary...
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ACTIVATE QUALITY FILTERS FOR QUESTIONS IN ALL CAPS! [duplicate]
Irritating isn't it? The most recent example that appears in previous feature request about the help pages. Is funny that isn't enabled here either. Can we enable it?
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SU Retag Request: [network] --> [networking]
Similar to SU Retag Request: wireless-network --> wireless-networking.
Can we retag network to networking?
Was doing this manually because I saw this first, until I saw it lists 400+ questions. :-(
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Why is the question tagged twice with the same tag and yet the question count does not match ?
This question has been tagged twice with [windows-7-x64]. Oddly, the same tag shows up twice, with different counts. Clicking on each of those tags, brings the same questions, although one less than ...
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What to do with "Opening local document files in Google Docs" from 2009
Please bear with me. I'm asking this because I'm got an edit ban because several of my lasts suggested edits were rejected. I'm guessing that people don't want that google-drive be removed from newer ...
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Why are review audits so bad and are there any plans to improve them?
As a continuation of my comments here, which weren't understood too well and are more suitable as a separate question/discussion, I'm wondering why does anyone think review audits are any useful on ...
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Are questions about online backup services on-topic?
Are questions about online backup services like:
Dropbox
Mozy
CrashPlan
on-topic for Super User?
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General Tag vs. Version Tag, and Multiple Version Tags
The general topic of general tag and version tags is discussed in tag + tag Version or just tag version. However, the answers don't address some specific issues:
Situation: OP states he is using ...
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Should we be getting rid of unversioned tags where there clearly is a version?
I don't really see a point in questions being double tagged as brand-product product-version, can we please change these to brand-product-version as this would cover both tags? What do you think?
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When are software recommendation answers not an answer?
This question is closely related to:
How to handle low quality software recommendation answers and
How do I recommend software in my answers
and others
I thought the requirements for software ...
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Software recs - better user guidance
There are many software rec questions on meta, involving correct tags, how to ask etc, but I can't find one that covers this aspect.
No matter how well a user follows the guidelines in How do I ask a ...
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Why are changes applied without any reasoning or community agreement?
Please align the Excel tags isn't agreed upon, while Can we please standardize the Microsoft tags? has been there for ages and has been a consensus which we pretty much agreed up.
Why does a ...
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Guidance: editing question to reveal intent by removing author's obvious understanding, (or any reader's understanding)
I had my edits rejected, which to me at least, clearly showed the questioner's intent at: https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/389619
The edits were rejected with the boilerplate, "This ...
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Please align the Excel tags
We lost the battle on excel already, so now it's labeled microsoft-excel, but I see there is still confusion with the version specific tags.
microsoft-excel-2002
microsoft-excel-2003 excel-2003
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Would a link be considered as a spam?
A user has posted an answer which is correct in respect to the question. But in the end of the answer he has posted a link which has no resemblance to the answer (could be for promoting). So what ...
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Better about page example questions/answers/comments
I recently posted on Meta.SO about the example questions, answers, and comments found on various site's about pages, and was told that although some sites have auto-system-picked examples, the mods of ...
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Can I ask questions related to hardware?
I have a question related to my new computer hardware. Would it be okay to ask it on superuser.com?
If the question itself should be described then let me know and I'll edit this post.
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Consolidating & adding synonyms for cron, crontab & cronjob tags
There are 145 questions tagged with cron, 61 with crontab & 17 with cronjob.
Should these be consolidated into a single tag with appropriate synonyms? If so, would:
cron ← crontab
cron ← ...
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Use of [moderation] in Meta
TL;DR:
Should moderation be added to questions about the general practices of using moderation privileges in Super User? Could it be better to create a new tag, i.e. "community practices" or ...
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site scope about file descriptors
I did this question here a few minutes ago, then I tough it would probably be more in the scope of Unix and Linux.
Since super user have tags for I assume the question is on topic here, is it?
If not,...
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What is our stance on questions “Is there any software that can do X or can it be achieved natively with Windows"?
What is our stance on questions “Is there any software that can do X or can it be achieved natively with Windows"? Are they on-topic or off-topic? I don't know if that's regarded as a software ...
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Kindly asking about explanation of moderating comments of an answer
There is a bit old question moved from Server Fault, with an answer commented unfavourable by moderators.
I'm not native English speaker and maybe I don't understand something sufficiently well...
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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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Where can I ask the question about only for mobile?
I need some software for my mobile and I know I can't ask it on SU because it's not related with PCs in some way.
So for mobiles, where can I ask questions? Does the Stack Exchange Network have any ...
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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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Why would a question with a valid re-title, be reverted to a non-question title?
How do I make a machine "blank screen" for a period of time (as a penalty) if certain noise levels are reached?
I spent a few minutes getting familiar with what was in the body and ...
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Retag cmd, cli, terminal, and terminal.app into command-line
command-line probably is/should be the canonical tag, with 782 questions. cmd is more Windows-oriented, but is still command-line. cli is about half-and-half, with half on Windows and half on Linux. ...
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Why can't comments be downvoted?
Since comment upvotes don't yield any reputation, I'm just wondering why comments can be upvoted but not downvoted. I see a lot of comments with flat out wrong information or unhelpful responses, and ...
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Top Questions of the Week #2
Now we're into week 2 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 and ...
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Many questions tagged "ide" should be tagged "pata"
Many of the questions currently tagged "ide" should actually be tagged "pata". ide is for integrated development environments, rather than Integrated Drive Electronics.
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What can we do about questions remaining for days on the Unanswered tab?
It would be nice to process the Unanswered Tab on a daily basis...
However, it feels like I am the only one passing by there, which is why there is barely any progress there.
What can we do such ...
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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?
The flag counter on my moderator nomination states that I have 364 helpful flags (as of the instant this question was posted). However, the counter on my user profile states that I have 535 helpful ...
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Are questions about specific models of hardware okay?
I'd like to know whether Logitech K310 "washable" keyboard is still washable with one of the keys removed.
Would such question be okay?
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What does the "flip flop" hat mean? :-)
I got a secret hat! Is it magic? Am I being targeted by the NSA? Is the hat lined with tin foil? Does someone think I'm a flop, or does it just come with matching sandals? And if I'm a flip-flop - ...
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Submit button not working
When I want to submit my question, system tells me "You can only ask 6 questions in a 24-hour period.", But I'm pretty sure I didn't asked any question in past 24 hours, not even in past 6 month.
I ...
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Why is this question on SQL migrated?
I've asked a question about SQL, not asking for a piece of code per se, but more of a general advice.
I hesitated between Stack Overflow and Super User, tried a search on the topic, found thousands ...
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What is the definition of "primarily opinion-based" on SU?
Example:
What are the advantages of a fixed IP address?
The advantages of fixed ip addresses are technical facts.
My question is: Why is this question closed as "primarily opinion-based"?
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should [mathematica] usage/programming questions be on-topic on SU?
My main concerns are as follows:
a) we have a dedicated http://mathematica.stackexchange.com stack for them - if they are asked here, they are unlikely to get much attention, they are hard to find ...
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Is a duplicate question closed?
I'm struggling with a help center topic "duplicates". If a question is marked as "duplicate" (by user votes) is it already closed as well?
If not, and the close process still has to be initialized, ...
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Reasons for Bounty
I just started a bounty on a question of mine, when I was asked for the reason why. Unfortunately none of the answers I could select were totally applicable. If I had the choice, I would have liked ...
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Why do line breaks not work for me in comments?
The help text recommends insertion of a double space when a line break is required. It don't work for me.
The answer here is not helpful.
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How was this question not a real question?
I'm just wanting some clarity of why this question was closed. It states that the question is "ambiguous, vague, incomplete, or rhetorical and cannot be reasonably answered in its current form", ...
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Markdown formatting of tag wiki excerpts in /review
Tag wiki excerpts are plain text. The description when editing tag wikis states:
The tag wiki excerpt is a brief plain text introduction to the topic that the tag represents. It is shown at the top ...
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Newest questions with YOUR TAGS only
Not sure if this should be here or meta.SO, but...
A really handy feature for me, and I assume others, would be the option to see ONLY questions tagged with your tags, but in chronological order.
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Suggested edits on child metas
While there is this post on the topic, the reasons for it don't really apply anymore, as there is a review pane (complete with a suggested edits page).
As such, I would like to suggest that users in ...
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SU Retag Request: [applications] --> [software]
applications might benefit from being merged to software.
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Why was I banned?
I have asked one question on this site that received one answer. The question was marked as a possible dupe (I don't dispute that).
The question: force programs and connections to use a proxy server ...
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Why do deleted questions remove the reputation?
On a question on SU, I noticed I lost 80 rep because a good question was deleted. Why do the good answerers suffer if a question gets deleted? Is the information not pertinent?
I think it is, and so ...
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Tag synonyms for denial-of-service
Since the DOS tag is ambiguous, I've just created the denial-of-service tag. I already started retagging a few questions.
The problem is that denial-of-service won't appear as a possible choice when ...
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Asking questions that are clearly answered elsewhere
Recently, I turned to "the internet" looking to answer an Excel question. Over the past year, I have found myself gravitating directly to SE/SO to answer many of my technical questions (much like I ...