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Understanding the flawed audit review system
I came across a post, analyzed its content, and subsequently answered, drawing from my own experience of encountering a similar issue in the past.
In an effort to provide a comprehensive answer rooted ...
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Remote vs remote-control vs remote-access
Can someone explain the differences, it's not clear reading the tags. If not, can we perhaps clone remote and remote-control to remote-access, freeing up remote remote-control for actual remote-...
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Recommended "close" vote practice [duplicate]
Seeing a question with two close votes, but no specific comment, why the close votes were issues, I wonder what is the recommended practice for close votes:
Shouldn't there be a comment explaining ...
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Since when are users required to be logged in to ask questions?
A few months ago I asked an anonymous question using an unregistered account on Super User. However I now see a message that you must be logged in to ask a question on Super User.
When and why did ...
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Audit failed, why is this not opinion based?
I just flagged https://superuser.com/review/first-questions/1224426 as opinion based in the First Questions review.
I am struggling to see why it is not opinion based. Who knows what IBM devs were ...
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I have a question ban and I have no idea how to fix it [duplicate]
I'm unable to post questions, but stack exchange does not point out what is wrong with my posts, nor give me good direction beyond "edit your questions". So it expects me to blindly edit my ...
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Rename microsoft-one-outlook to outlook-for-windows
microsoft-one-outlook seems to refer to outlook-for-windows, see Wikipedia.
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Windows 11 file explorer hangs frequently, related to FontSubstitutes? [migrated]
Hellow Everyone. On Windows 11 Pro version 22H2, the File Explorer frequently becomes unresponsive. No matter how long I wait, it does not recover. In severe cases, it freezes after just two or three ...
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Being a scriptkiddy is OK but piracy is not?
I raised a flag because dude wanted regex so he can go credential stuffing
How to mark/delete lines that contain anything that is not letters or numbers after a specific string?
and then I received ...
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Against the "restrictions" tag
So, we have a restrictions tag. I believe it is much too vague and general.
Now, true, it has 95 associated questions, but they should either just lose the tag or get more specific tags, existing or ...
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Is this refusal to accept an answer aligned with community standards?
I added an answer to the following question, thinking I fulfilled what the OP expected:
Is there an equivalent of a downloads list for attachments saved from MS Outlook?
The OP says the answer is not ...
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How is it possible to review 1000 "Close votes" within less than 10 minutes?
Just by accident I stumbled upon a user profile and instantly noticed the high number of gold badges. When looking at the list of badges I wondered how it is possible to review 1,000 close votes ...
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Why was this OP's self-answer converted to a comment?
This post: OrangePi Zero 3 once you have installed and booted a OS from micro SD card you can't eventually boot any different OS
OP found out that their issue stemmed from the hardware publisher ...
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Delete Accepted answer, where the consensus is that the answer is wrong
https://superuser.com/a/1685364/603073
The consensus is that the answer I provided is wrong, which on reflection I now agree with. However, I can't delete my answer as it has been accepted.
Is there a ...
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What devices can I ask questions about on superuser?
The superuser site topic definition says we can ask about computer software, so long as it doesn't run on electronic devices. Can anyone provide an example of a non-electronic device that runs "...
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I think we should remove the [windows-10-final] tag synonym
Previously, [windows-10-final] referred to non-preview Windows 10 builds (i.e. "final" meaning Windows 10 after its official release, when the preview period was over), and served as a tag ...
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Let's better define a "Hardware recommendation"
While performing reviews, I was asked to review a question that basically asked "Will DDR3 RAM work with motherboard XYZ?".
For the purposes of Super User, is this considered a hardware ...
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Where to ask a question about the best "zsh + iTerm2" for Windows alternative
I would like to ask this question (just a draft for now)
I recently moved from MacOS to Windows 10, and I need to find a good terminal + bash substitute for what I had on the Mac (iTerm2 + zsh + Oh ...
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Inconsistent tags: .bash-profile (with dot) vs bashrc (no dot)
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There is the tag .bash-profile, note the leading dot. Currently it has no synonyms, so the "canonical" tag is naturally with the dot. And there is also bashrc with .bashrc as its ...
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Is a question about a Windows iPhone image type that turns out to be just about settings on the iPhone a better fit for Ask Different SE?
I asked How to browse the iPhone HEIC images on Windows without the automatic conversion to JPG?
and found out that the fix is on the side of the iPhone settings. Windows does not play a role for the ...
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Reopen request 1803702
The question is closed as a duplicate of another question. I have highlighted the difference between the associated question and my question. I have now significantly edited the question to ask how ...
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What do you use to quickly post boilerplate responses?
What do you use to quickly post boilerplate responses? I am using a simple Tampermonkey script but I, as a Bear of Very Little Brain, am open to suggestions.
I'm not just looking for improvements/...
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How to Change email notification
For some reason, I stopped receiving notifications when someone replied to my question.
I can’t find the settings location.
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Why are questions randomly being closed and marked as "shopping requests" when they are not?
I would really like to understand how this questions is supposed to be a "shopping request", when there is
no request for specific products or manufacturers
I clearly am discussing a most ...
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Are questions about microcontrollers off topic?
Should we see questions about microcontrollers as inherently off topic or should we allow them? What do you all think?
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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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Why was my question (1801790) closed?
How to upgrade the software called Everything published by Void Tools?
The reason that was given is "details or clarity," which clearly isn't the issue.
There are a couple of answers and ...
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Close votes queue is half-dead, can anything be done about it?
This is a screenshot of review stats taken today, but it has been similar for a while (bunch of useless questions I followed ended at 4 close votes), lately in the worst state with stats similar to ...
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Too large fonts on mobile
Font sizes on Super User are way to big on mobile devices (or, more specifically: viewports with widths up to 640 px). This does not affect all Stack Exchange sites, it’s a problem with the Super User ...
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Mobile Mark 25 bench marking software question
Is this site appropriate for asking a question about the Mobile Mark Benchmarking Software? Especially if I am having issues with running it?
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Combatting Spam: Enhancing Keyword Approval and Filtering
Recently, as a regular user focused mainly on Q&A, I've noticed a surge in spam content related to the "HERO RUPEE LOAN CUSTOMER CARE HELPLINE NUMBER". These posts consist of spam ...
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Bad summary on DuckDuckGo featured results
So, I was trying to go to the site, and accidentally searched for "Superuser", and got this.
It routes correctly to this site, but it looks like someone hijacked the search term by ...
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Why try to solve someone's issue when you can just sweep it under the rug?
I know I'm risking excommunication here but nevermind.
A few weeks ago, I posted a (legitimate, I think) question about issues while connecting two PCs via RDP over the same home network.
At first I ...
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Integrate reputations of multiple superuser accounts?
I have 2 accounts on superuser.
May I know how can I transfer and integrate the reputations of my accounts?
Thank you.
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Please be more careful with audit tests
I was doing some reviews, and I ended up at this answer.
It clearly is no SPAM, it clearly deals with the subject at hand and indeed gives some answers in a structured way, so I thought "That ...
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superuser inbox not posting new messages
Since yesterday, my superuser inbox is no longer receiving updates to questions where I contributed. That is, if I am to leave a comment and then another user were to leave a subsequent comment, I am ...
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Will this site get a dark mode? [duplicate]
That's it, that's the question. Can we get a dark mode? I am reluctant to use these dark-mode Chrome extensions, and I think all the StackExchange sites should have a dark mode, regardless.
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How do we better educate new Reviewers in the Review queues?
It seems from comments that there may be confusion over who I think needs educating.
I mean the reviewers, not the users.
We currently have epidemic numbers of terrible reviews, with a stunningly low ...
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Do the anti spam measures need to be increased?
It seems the last week or so, we get overrun with spam posts. It generally takes up to 15 minutes before enough spam flags have been gathered to delete the post, which is enough time to get Google ...
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This is not a farewell…
This is not a farewell, but rather an explanation.
What happened?
As some of you might have noticed, I have not been hanging out on SuperUser — or any Stack Exchange site — nowadays as much as I had ...
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Why questions are closed and why asking new questions are banned?
Its good to organize and maintain the forum and make it look good and have question or research or knowledge sharing. As in stack exchange specially super user i have faced strict rules of closing ...
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Why my Questions closed is not opened after 2 times re-editing..why not admins re-edit themself?
I have edited two time and remove all questing leaving one and question still explained to make them understand what i am talking about still question is not opened and even banned to ask more ...
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Reference new ChatGPT / AI policy in the Help Center
I've recently flagged a few answers as suspected ChatGPT generated answers. These answers came from a new user.
It occurred to me to reference the help center when commenting to the user, however ...
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Hackintosh vs. fair use
Note: Cross-posted on SE Law to get thoughts from legal experts there.
Follow up question to Revisit the Hackintosh policy.
Use case:
I create a userscript (in a [licenced] Windows or a Linux) and ...
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Can I find out why this question was deleted?
Can I find out why this question was deleted and whether there are changes that could allow it to be undeleted? I have found an answer and would like to post that.
https://superuser.com/questions/...
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General moderators' strike
Open letter here: https://openletter.mousetail.nl
I haven't decided what I think about this yet.
It seemed fairly apparent months ago that technical support was a prime target for ChatGPT et al., and ...
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Looking to learn from this, first time I edited question (other than in-lining an image or some typos)
I got some criticism for editing a question. I personally don't think I mutilated the question but others may feel differently.
Original question:
I am trying to find a long-term method of storing ...
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Why was my “written by AI” flag declined?
I flagged this answer as AI-written (using a custom flag). The flag was rejected. I firmly believe this is not correct and that this answer (and maybe others) should be removed.
The author of this ...
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How can I further improve my freezing laptop question?
Commenters suggested me to address their comments in my main post and I think I did. However, I have received 3 downvotes so I guess my question still isn't up to the mark. How can I further improve ...
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ChatGPT - what do we flag as?
How do we best flag [fairly obvious] suspected ChatGPT answers? Do we need to flag for a mod every time, or spam… or…?
These are usually already attracting human attention - comments underneath, a ...
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