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2023 stand about "troubleshooting"
Tl;Dr What is the current SU stand about troubleshooting questions?
I'm a long time computer user used to do my best to solve "simple" problems, long time lurker on multiple forums ...
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Where is the 'logout' link? [duplicate]
I was on the SuperUser homepage, and noticed that there was no logout link. Came to meta and there's still no logout link. It's now missing on the StackOverflow page too. What's going on?
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Questions about Small Business environments on topic?
Are small business environment questions on topic for SU, or should they be put onto SF (with a server)?
Just in case anyone is wondering, the question is https://serverfault.com/questions/352137/...
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Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts
(I'm not sure I'm right on this meta site, but since there's a bug tag...)
The following is a link to a web page with a trailing ) in its URL:
test
I know, the parentheses can be escaped, but that'...
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Are licensing questions / license questions off topic [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What is the place to ask about legal issues associated with using software?
Are questions about licensing on or off topic here?
It does have a lot to do with software/...
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Why was my software-rec question closed?
How is my question worse than, for example, this one?
I believe I have provided a fairly comprehensive list of requirements, so that a best answer would be possible. Of the 10 requirements I've noted,...
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Does this audit make sense?
In a first post rewiew I got the question:
What kind of power port is this
I added this comment: This question with exactly this picutres has been asked before, look here: ...
and got this result:
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Inconsistent Mod response to migrating Excel questions between Stack OverFlow & Super User [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
When should questions be moved to AskDifferent/AskUbuntu/…?
When Excel questions at Super User are clearly vba or vbscript related I then will flag them as belonging to ...
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Bad audit question - failed audit on question that should have been closed
I just failed the following close vote audit https://superuser.com/review/close/354906.
The question is asking about an issue on a work pc in a corporate network.
As it stands the question should ...
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Private message feature
I would like to know if it's possible to have a Personal Message feature in SU. Sometimes I want to email a user or even a mod but I don't think it's possible. I think it could be usefull to share ...
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Why are substantial edits rejected when they don't also address all, potential minor, issues?
Some reviewers of suggested edits appear way to restrictive when it comes to approving an edit.
See for example
This suggested edit (Related meta post)
And this one (Disclaimer, this one is mine)
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Shouldn't cross posting be allowed?
I read somewhere (can't find it now), that cross posting is not allowed or encouraged between SE sites. But I think this should be allowed.
Here are few examples.
If I have questions on Google Earth,...
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Can we make Raspberry Pi questions off-topic and avoid hurting Raspberry Pi.SE?
If we were to accept Raspberry Pi questions as on-topic, we would be taking a huge amount of traffic away from the Raspberry Pi.SE community. People will find our community instead of theirs, our ...
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High reputation users having trouble understanding Super User?
With about 1 million views a month at the moment, Super User is turning out to be successful, however due to the general audience the concept of a Q&A vs. a forum is still something we need to ...
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What is the difference between Super User and Stack Overflow?
I'm trying to understand the difference between Super User and Stack Overflow. What kind of questions should I ask here and not on Stack Overflow?
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The monster that can't be killed
The microsoft tag is like something from a sci-fi horror movie. This manufacturer meta tag was cleaned out in March of this year, but people keep using it. I just fixed the third question in the ...
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Are you interested in writing blog posts?
After the blog became officially blessed by Jeff Atwood we've got some weekly posts and daily traffic on it, with an occasional spike on some of the most interesting blog posts. However, anyone with a ...
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Should we ban ChatGPT on Super User?
Edit: This question is old. Please see the newer post:
Use of ChatGPT is now banned on Super User
There is a new AI chatbot called ChatGPT by OpenAI. It appears to be able to answer questions and ...
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Do not take away earned privileges
So I guess this has probably been discussed before on other meta SE sites, sorry if I re-ignite an old and long-decided discussion here.
The thing is, I'm not a very active user on SU, more on SO. I ...
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Where's the dark theme option?
Stack Overflow has a dark theme option for several months now. Why is the same option not available on Super User? And across all the exchanges.
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VOTE for the Most Valued Super User
Voting is over!
Congratulations to Slhck, the 2011 MVSU! Full contest results are posted on the Super User Blog.
In celebration of Super User's 2nd Anniversary, we are holding a Super User Contest to ...
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Is "It's impossible" a valid answer, or is it a comment?
Sometimes you can see a question like How to do <something> in <some program>, asking for advice how to replicate a feature of competitive program or how to do something that OP expects to ...
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Why don't I get notications for favorited questions?
According to this question on Meta.StackOverflow:
Changes to the question will now notify users who have favorited the
question. Notifications include comments to the question, edits, new
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How to deal with an answer that is popular but wrong?
This answer is a load of rubbish. Not only is it technically incorrect but there are no sources and yet it has a lot of upvotes. It is very difficult to disprove something that is so vague, the ...
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Let's nuke the "error-message" tag
We have a tag named error-message, with now 220 95 49 questions tagged.
This is quite the meta tag, because it doesn't mean anything and adds no value to a question. Most problems result in some kind ...
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Is it wrong to ask people to accept an answer to their question?
I was looking through some of the questions I've answered, and an unsettling amount have:
Not accepted an answer
Not given extra details to help people answer
In essence, these questions are now ...
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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 ...
Daniel BeckMod
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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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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 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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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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Let's bring back to life the now (somewhat) dead Super User Blog
Your crazy mad scientist of a Blog Editor is back and wants to keep this blog going:
First off, I need to apologize. Like a terrible parent, I have abandoned my child. But no more! I have a little ...
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Make syntax highlighting possible to enable with prettify language codes
On Super User syntax highlighting is turned off. But there are questions on Super User where syntax highlighting can be helpful. Therefore I suggest that syntax highlighting is made possible to enable ...
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Over 243,000 views in 3 days?
I can see some other websites linking to this, but is this >243k view count in just 3 days really correct...?
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What should be featured in our list of off-topic close reasons?
Many people seem to think that question closure means that the question has come the end of its lifecycle here, while it's clearly not so. As part of making things more clear to the folks asking why ...
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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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Why are mod-close rates so much higher for Super User than for other similar SE sites?
Why are the mod-close rates here on Super User so much higher than on other similar Stack Exchange communities?
For comparison, I pulled the questions for the last (roughly) 11 days to analyze close-...
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Community Promotion Ads - 2013 [duplicate]
As it is December 2012, we are now going to reset our Community Promotion Ads for the new year.
What are Community Promotion Ads?
Community Promotion Ads are community-vetted advertisements that ...
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Are we/you strongly opposed to using **bold**?
Background: I suggested to emphasize the real answer in this answer about password checking ("you supply both the old and the new password") by making it bold. The suggestion was accepted, but ...
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Where to ask for computer hardware suggestions?
If I have a question about computer hardware, on which SE site should I ask it? It will involve asking for opinions.
For example,
"I need to purchase a computer for a conference room that will sit ...
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What should we do with outdated, but highly-popular questions?
Example: We have a question about SSDs, which is now two years old.
Are SSDs worth the money?
I've been hearing a lot of hype about the SSDs recently. I'm planning
to buy a new machine as ...
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How do comment @replies work?
In a comment under my questions somebody used first name only @Ivoxzy instead of using the users full name @Ivoxyz FFlipse
Is the correct user going to informed about this message that was address ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire
In connection with the moderator elections, we are holding a Q&A thread for the candidates. Questions collected from an earlier thread have been compiled into this one, which shall now serve as ...
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Yet Another Bad Audit – It was wrong to agree with a moderator
I just got this question – Conversion from WebM to MP4 in Ubuntu is slow and bad quality –
in the Reopen Review Queue.
The question displays a command and its CLI output,
and makes an attempt to ...
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July 2012 Moderator Election: Town Hall Chat [closed]
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Town Hall Chat session with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the ...
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Have a prompt when a tag is created
When a tag is created, a prompt should be raised, just so that people know they they are creating a tag, and are doing it intentionally.
I think that should solve address the answers to my previous ...
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Do we need better definitions for off-topic questions in the help center?
This question mainly relates to users and contributors' interpretations of the Help Center » Asking guidelines:
Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a
question ...
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Why are questions off-topic for Super User being migrated from other trilogy sites?
It's unbelievable that Super User is still being used as a dumping ground especially for questions not on-topic on Stack Overflow.
Latest example:
https://superuser.com/questions/194442/recommended-...
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Can we please have better tag wiki excerpts?
Today someone proposed lots of tag wiki excerpts edits that all followed the form:
Questions about <tag-name>, <description of object>.
Why do we need the Questions about element?
We don'...
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