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Do we want to have an option to migrate to AskUbuntu?
With 3341+ questions tagged ubuntu would this seem a good migration option?
The most recent ones are:
How can I change my uid without opening another user account?
vmware linux headers not found for ...
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SuperUser bug: badge border is cut off in Chrome and Opera, fine in Firefox
I just noticed this at the bottom of this question on SU:
Chrome 2.0.172.33
Firefox 3.5
EDIT Can anyone with Chrome 3 take a look and tell us if it's wrong there too?
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What is the place to ask about legal issues associated with using software?
What is the place to ask about legal issues associated with using software? I asked one question that was closed as off-topic, so I guess that superuser is not a good place to ask. Do you know any ...
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Can the hardware and software tags be obliterated?
Do we really need the hardware and software tags?
Looking at the tags into detail:
They don't group all the questions that should belong to them.
Their statistics don't make sense, they are both less ...
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Why isn't reputation passed between Stack Exchange sites?
I don't understand it, why do we have to make our reputation separately on Stack Overflow, Server Fault and Super User even if the accounts are linked?
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Downvoting a question should require a comment/upvote of a comment
Downvoting questions
As you've seen in the title, In my opinion, a downvote at least requires a short explanation in the comments or an upvote of a comment if the comment already explains the problem....
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How to build up commenting privileges?
I want to comment on a question and provide some feedback but I can’t.
How can I build up privilege quickly so I can comment?
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Is a modern phone not a computer?
Re the FAQ:
If you have a question about...
computer hardware computer software
and it is not about...
electronic devices, media players,
cell phones or smart phones, except
insofar ...
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Community Promotion Ads - 1H 2011 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Community Promotion Ads - 2012
What in the Wide, Wide World of Sports is Going On Here?
TL;DR -- put images and links in the answers. If they get voted up enough, they will ...
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Concept of "conditional" downvotes?
Down-voted questions seem to fall into two categories: fixable and unfixable. Some questions are just inappropriate, easily answerable with minimal search effort, or have other problems for which ...
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A new way to clean up tags
This is the proposal. Please see Help us clean up tags! for the result.
Let's face it, we have tons of horrible tags.
In the past, we used Old monthly tag cleanups to keep track of what needs to be ...
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What is the correct way to deal with obsolete answers?
Sometimes old answers were correct at the time they were written, but the march of technology has made them obsolete.
For example, the command-line video encoding tool ffmpeg used to have a 'vhooks'...
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Raise the minimum rep needed to create new tags
Super User has a tag problem.
Due to many users who are not acquainted with the site barely reaching the rep threshold to create new tags, many such users misuse it, and that causes a problem as ...
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Are video game questions appropriate for superuser?
Or is it time to create another site?
questions could be general discussion or tips/tricks
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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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Are batch script questions allowed on Super User?
Yes, it's nearly a dupe:
Is batch script help allowed on superuser?
Preferred location for "shell scripting" questions
I've also read Inconsistent Mod response to migrating Excel ...
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Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]?
I know that this has been covered before (for example here), but communities evolve constantly and our current view on this matter can be different.
In my humble opinion, software-rec should be ...
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Banned Tag Proposal: Hackintosh
Due to the legal gray area that exists with regards to building or running Hackintosh machines we have always discouraged these question on SU since it would attract unnecessary attention to the site ...
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How can we take care of our old duplicates?
What's going on …
There is a trend that is very easy to explain.
A question is asked.
It gets a few answers, and because it's the first of its kind (i.e. topic-wise), it receives a lot of popularity
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Community Promotion Ads - 2014 [duplicate]
It's the time of the year again, namely it is December 2013, and so we shall now refresh our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are ...
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Commenting on a “High-quality” audit
I just encountered this answer to the question
Is it safe to download and burn a disc image on an infected PC? in the First Posts queue.
It was an audit, so it displayed as it were a new answer, with ...
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Mechanism for scrapping bad audit questions?
I occasionally see recommendations here to scrap specific review audit questions. It isn't clear whether there is actually a mechanism to do that.
I assume the system uses the audit examples over ...
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What could we do with the [error] tag?
Well, we have a tag called error. Its description says:
Please use a more specific tag instead.
Awesome. So what do all these 547 questions have in common? A non-descriptive tag. On Oct. 10, @...
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Are diagnostics/troubleshooting issues on-topic and not too localized?
Following on from this question. I made a comment there:
By the same token, we shouldn't automatically close any question that says "virus" anywhere in the subject or body, because it may be that ...
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Should potentially "Dangerous" answers be flagged/deleted?
Referring to this question: Restore MacBook Pro to factory settings without disc, I find it rather reckless to post an answer to an OP that obviously does not know what the effects will be.
Should ...
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See possible duplicates in question
When one opens a question and starts typing a title, a list of possible duplicate questions is shown as illustrated below.
I assume that this isn't used often since some quite obvious duplicates are ...
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Should I delete my own question if no new answer can be validated?
A while ago, I asked this question for which no solution was found. I have since re-installed the host in question and gave it to a family member.
So now I will be unable to validate any answers given ...
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Are "error" and "problem" meta-tags?
From http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/the-death-of-meta-tags/:
If the tag can’t work as the only tag on a question, it’s probably a meta-tag.
Clearly, error and problem fit this criterion.
If ...
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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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Is it kosher to accept your answer on your own question?
I've on occasion come across the answer to my question, and feel that it's the best answer, but do not want to "rob" anyone of rightfully earned rep... What do I do? Also I'm assuming that I do NOT ...
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How can I request to move a question to a different Stack Exchange site?
I have a question that would be better off on Stack Overflow, but I asked it here.
I've added an edit asking it to be moved, but it's still here.
How can I request for it to be moved?
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Should questions related to problems with beta software/prototype hardware be closed?
I saw that Windows 8.1 Preview No sound on Macbook Pro Retina was closed since it's Preview/Beta code and the issue may very well be fixed by MS or the PC manufacturer in the months to come before ...
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Software recommendation and software-rec tag [duplicate]
I think most people feel software recommendations are off topic here at SU - please correct me if I'm wrong.
Yet, we have a software-rec tag. Is this not confusing?
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How Do I Log Out? [duplicate]
Just as title says: how do I log out of this site? - I am certain that it is not good practice just closing my browser down, but I cannot find a sign-out link anywhere. - Has anyone else found one?
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Users asking ubuntu questions should be informed about askubuntu ?
When someone asks a question with ubuntu tag they should be redirected to a page informing them about askubuntu and how asking it on that will expose the question to the more ubuntu experts.
Then ...
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Revisit the Hackintosh policy
This answer from 2010 is oft-cited as reason for questions about "Hackintoshes" (fancy word for "Running macOS on non-Apple hardware") not being allowed. The reasoning is that we ...
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Over 54,000 questions with no answers!
We have over 54,000 questions with no answers, this feels somewhat like a concern to me.
Some other ideas than just answering include:
Give bounties to the highest voted questions, helping them get ...
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Calling all bloggers.... Again
It's that time of the year again... Where I've completed my finals, my work tasks have slimmed a little and I think to myself I can get the blog back up and going again. So here we are! I'm calling ...
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Super User website applications policy
I recently asked this question on Super User, and a big discussion arose on appropriate questions. The issue came down to the new verbiage in the FAQ:
I had figured that the websites line was just ...
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Please add a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut for the Keyboard style
Not sure if this should just be here or if I should post on Meta.Stackoverflow - please can a mod move if you think it should be there.
When writing answers, one of the items that takes me the ...
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What the heck happened that made the question I answered so popular (and my answer along with it)?
I answered the question If 32-bit machines can only handle numbers up to 2^32, why can I write 1000000000000 (trillion) without my machine crashing? with a quick off the top of my head answer because ...
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The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses
This is a list of known spammers, spam domains, and IP addresses to which these domains point.
This list is derived from spam patterns observed on Super User as well as information from DNS and ...
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Blacklist Google?
google (the manufacturer meta tag, see Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again), was cleaned up a little over a year ago. It stayed dead for almost a year, but starting in July of this year, ...
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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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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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Reduce Tag Ambiguity by Requiring Objects for Transitive Verbs
It's all in the title I'd say...
In short, I'm suggesting that we add 'object' validation for single-transitive verb tags without object qualifiers... For instance ... 'split' would require the ...
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Turn Markdown "code" blocks into plain "preformatted" blocks on Super User
On SU, can we remove the default syntax highlighting? It seems that most uses for the Markdown 4-space-indent-code-block on SU are not actual code, and the syntax highlighting is more of a hindrance ...
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Where do EC2 and AWS questions truly belong?
I am a moderator on Web Applications, and I would like to address the points of this Web Apps Meta question to a wider audience, because we get more than a handful of questions on these topics that ...
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Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?
I edited this question yesterday as part of a cleanup spree. It had already gotten a fair bit of activity, but someone tweeted a link to it after I edited it, and things really took off.
The topic of ...
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Can we get rid of the company tags?
I don't think any of the following tags have questions that benefit them:
microsoft, apple, acer, samsung, sony, asus, ...
And thinking in the meta tag way, a question that's only about those tags ...
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