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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Make "code / command"-background more visible
I write code or commands using "backticks". But on SuperUser, the background doesn't have much visual contrast, so if I write multiple commands separated with comma or a single word, it's hard to ...
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Flag dialog on low-score answers appears faded out
Related Meta Stack Overflow requests
The flag pop up on heavily downvoted answers has grey
text
Flag popup in review is translucent for non-hidden ignored
tags
Current status
When ...
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What is the policy on duplicate answers?
In the question
how do I echo $something >> file.txt without carriage return?
which was asked and answered about a month ago, a new answer has been submitted which is essentially a duplicate (...
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Unattended first posts
I am fairly new in the Super User community, and I am still trying to understand how things work. So forgive me for asking this question which may seem a bit silly to some members.
This is ...
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Let's put [preview] in the rear-view
The tag preview has an ambiguity problem. It has no tag wiki and is often misapplied in place of better, more specific tags.
For example, about half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, ...
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Define Scope of Community Promotion Ads?
I'm looking at the Community Promotion Ads submitted, and am wondering if they are being used in the best interest of the community.
I envisioned that these ads would be used to promote products and ...
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Firefox versions going to infinity – should we merge the tags?
This is an update to: Merge firefox-related tags?
We now have:
firefox-3.6 x33
firefox-4 x129
firefox-5 x33
firefox-6 x15
firefox-7 x8
(nothing in between)
firefox-10 x4
How is this going to end up?...
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Three batches of questions to close or delete
In line with Help us clean up Super User, I've been closing a lot of questions recently, but some are fairly old and hard to get close votes on. Ideally I'd vote to delete but I don't have enough ...
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Take away the chinese tag
While working on Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again I have come across the tag chinese. There are quite a few questions on there of varying quality.
What is it for, why do we have tags ...
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What should we do with those ever-recurring "image entire hard drive" questions?
I think every week or so, we get the occasional "How do I copy my entire hard drive?" question. The answers are always the same, in the sense of suggesting software like Acronis TrueImage or ...
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Unable to propose tag wiki
I am trying to create a tag wiki for question-of-the-week, but every time I click on Propose Tag Wiki it just reloads the page and doesn't let me make the tag wiki.
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
Please look at the 226 questions under failure.
We are a site for computer problems. Tags such as "error" often don't add any additional value. The same goes for "failure", and it's probably a bit ...
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What to do with answers to abandoned questions?
This problem has been discussed in several ways by now, but I did not find the problem I am facing with it.
I often face the problem that I answer a question and the user who made the question just ...
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Is there a valid Stackexchange for my home networking question, or should I just use the DD-WRT Forum?
I asked a question at serverfault, it was migrated to superuser, and promptly closed as off-topic.
Here is the question:
Is it possible to throw DD-WRT on a F5D8235-4 v2?
Now is there a valid ...
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Questions about bypassing or circumventing network security
I have seen a number of questions on how to bypass network security. I was wondering if superuser (or stackexchange) had a policy or stock answer about this?
As a regular kind of user, I can ...
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"mono" tag as in "vs .net" and as in "vs. stereo"
There seem to be two uses of the tag "mono", one for questions related to audio and one for questions related to the Mono framework.
Wouldn't it be better to create a tag "mono-framework" and retag ...
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Should adding a constructive comment fail an audit? [duplicate]
I have just failed this audit for adding a comment.
After having carefully read the question and the answer (which was in the first post review) I noticed that the answer ends with the following ...
DavidPostillMod
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Questions about WordPress on Super User
I was updating my blog by installing wordpress on a server of mine, and I had a particular question.
As it seems, it is not allowed to ask any questions about WordPress the software, since the ...
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Canonical question on USB flash drives becoming write-protected
We have lots of questions about USB flash drives becoming write-protected and most of them aren't closed. The closest I can find to a canonical question is this, whose answers are rather lacking as ...
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Review Audit Failure
I just failed a review audit on this Hard drive clicking for 16 times during startup
I was just adding a comment to ask the OP if they could add their screenshots to the SE Imgur. Other than that I ...
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tag + tag-version, or just tag-version?
Should questions about a specific version of something have both the general tag of it and the version tag, or just the version tag? For example: If I'm asking "How do the Home and Professional ...
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The [filter] tag is ambiguous
See list of questions tagged filter: some of them are about ffmpeg filters (used for resizing videos and such), some are about filtering data in MS Excel, some are about organising emails... none of ...
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Should we close old questions with no more feedback as "no longer relevant", on SuperUser?
SuperUser has a much higher ratio of "personal" question. I mean that many questions are linked to one user only, with his particular configuration. Of course his question can be of help to other ...
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Question of the Week #44 [duplicate]
Now we're into post #44 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 questions that you feel is of worth ...
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How should I request for comment cleanup on migrated questions?
Going through the list of recently migrated questions (10k), some of these really need some editing or other moderation.
What you see quite often on those questions are comments like:
not ...
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Improve filtering of spam suggested edits
I've been seeing an increasing number of spam edits in the review queues, replacing the entire body of the post with filler text such as a complement (to get past spam filters), then including a link ...
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Burn [computer-buying] tag
computer-buying has about 24 questions, almost all of which are closed for shopping recommendations. Can this tag be burned since questions about shopping are clearly off-topic?
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Question of the Week #45
Note: From here on, until I'm done with school, I'll be posting QOTW every OTHER week (unless someone want to join up and help me out)
Now we're into post #45 of the "Top Question" of Super User in ...
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Should I write question when I know answer?
I had a problem for which I couldn't find solution on the Internet. I found a solution and I think that the solution for the problem is useful and somebody could have the same problem. Is it OK to ...
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What should be done about old, abandoned questions?
Whenever a retag request comes about - or when I'm wading through /review I often come across old questions which haven't been answered, with low views & most of the times the questions are by ...
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Is Superuser's <code> CSS light-blue highlight near invisible on anyone else's laptop LCD?
I have a 15" laptop with a quality built-in LCD, but still, some very light colors wash out to where they're barely noticeable. For example the light blue background color used for the <code> ...
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How can we promote the blog?
Our blog has been running great for a while, and its content is great, however recently, all editors and frequent writers have been busy (including myself). This is why there currently are no weekly ...
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Is there a way to get a email whenever there's a new answer in a thread?
Is there a way to get an email alert whenever there's an new update (such as an answer or a comment) on a thread? I know you can just use IFTTT (check out ifttt.com) and set up a trigger, but I want ...
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Are detailed Excel VBA questions best posed here or on Stack Overflow?
I recently posted this question concerning Excel VBA TypeOf difficulties on Stack Overflow.
Was that the best site to post the question on, or would superUser have been a better choice?
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SO user new to SU starting with 101 reputation?
Out of curiosity - how can a user start out with a rep of 101 on SU? I'm looking at the profile of Merlin and even though he has no activity visible to me (no votes anyhow), he seems to have started ...
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Mac and osx tag usage on SU
I see there are a lot of questions tagged mac (749) and even more tagged osx (860) on SuperUser. However, I find the usage of the tags to be quite inconsistent. A lot of people tag their questions mac ...
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Is there a method to rename a tag without editing the questions?
I just added apache to the manufacturer meta tag list because Apache is a software foundation with an extensive list of projects, not just the web server software. The [apache] tag has been used for ...
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Split off [split]
The tag split is used for lots of things and not used consistently for anything.
It has been planned to make it go since 2014. Can we burn it now?
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Request to migrate a question to Raspberry Pi declined
I recently flagged a question to be migrated to Raspberry Pi.
Backup data rate on Raspberry Pi maxing out at 5 Mb/s. Why?
But it was declined with the following explanation.
don't really ...
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What are the requirements and how to submit a SU blog?
What the requirements for submitting a Super User Community Blog post? After the post has been created, how is it submitted?
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How do I undo my vote to close?
Maybe it's just me but on countless occasions I've wrongly voted to close after misreading the question (oops). Either that, or the OP has modified their question following a comment to bring it in ...
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