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Oops, I think I managed to dispute my own flag!
So, funny story:
I was reviewing Late Answers earlier this week, and came across this one:
It looked more like a comment than an answer, but I wanted to see the other answer referenced here just to ...
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How can I improve this question?
I recently asked Windows gets stuck uninstalling display languages, which wasn't received well, and got 2 downvotes, and I'm wondering what I did wrong/how I can improve the question.
I can't really ...
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Yellow sidebar on SU meta does not have coloured SU logo for Blog
Update:
You can no longer see this because the Podcast link is now there. It may come back in the future.
On the yellow sidebar on SU (the main site), this is what you see:
The Blog logo is the ...
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Burning [books]
books is a very ambiguous tag. It's use is varied, although generally it is used by questions looking for book recommendations. It heralds from the era of '09
A lot of the questions are closed and ...
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Some tag edits cause a demand for body edits
Usually, when editing the tags on a question as part of a tag cleanup simply editing the tag is accepted by the system.
Most recently: here and here
Occasionally, a popup appears demanding 6 ...
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Possibility of a canonical Fn-invert question?
Annoying Fn keys
How To Permanently Lock the "Fn" Key Down So It Is Active On My Laptop Keyboard?
How can I make my laptop F-key's work as F-keys?
F-Keys are Alternate by default on a ...
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What happened to the “too old” message?
I just voted to close this two-year-old question
because I believed that it was off-topic for Super User,
and that it belonged on another site in the Stack Exchange network.
However, I was not given ...
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Circular duplicates aren't handled in an intuitive way
I've been reviewing close votes and found this question (let's call it Question 1):
But its proposed duplicate (Question 2) is already marked as a duplicate of Question 1.
Still, I've been able to ...
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Should questions dealing with admitted cases of PEBKAC be closed as Too Localized?
A recent question triggered this, although I've seen many such cases in the past (as I'm sure have others). In all such cases the OP describes some steps that have been followed and also seemingly ...
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Question of the Week #40
Now we're into post #39 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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Support Option-Return for inserting new lines in Super User chat
On Mac OS X, pressing Option-Return inserts newlines in text input fields instead of e.g. submitting a form. This is a system-wide convention (Cocoa's insertNewlineIgnoringFieldEditor:).
Very few ...
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Questions deleted by the OP mark answers as deleted by their owner
This topic was deleted by the user who posted the question.
The answer was deleted with the topic. But the page says that the answer was deleted by it's owner at the exact same time, which is simply ...
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Close votes filter enhancement
The close votes allows us to filter by up to 3 tags.
Can these (and if so how) be negative values. For example, I know nothing of Linux, and as such I spend quite a while clicking the skip button. I ...
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Fully dark theme/mode?
Since the whole network is getting a more consistent theming all across its sites, why not adding a dark theme (/dark mode to the theme), as well?
It's not just about the ongoing (mobile) "...
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Alignment issue in the CAPTCHA window
There is an alignment issue in the CAPTCHA window.
Some time the I'm not a robot checkbox went out of the modal window.
Some time the modal window occupying the full width of the page, it expected ...
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Button header in reopen queue does not scroll horizontally
This was my initial view in the reopen queue. The Skip button was out of view:
When I scrolled all the way to the right, the top bar stayed in place and the button still was not visible:
FireFox 63....
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Suggestion for improvement in site look
The current evolution of the SU site look has created a sidebar
that is mostly empty space :
It seems to me that it would be useful to transfer more information
to the sidebar, in order to avoid the ...
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How should I handle this review task / answer?
While reviewing I came across this post: https://superuser.com/a/1359300/926024 and I'm very unsure on what to do about it.
Technically, it is an answer to the question, even though it is basically ...
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How to do better edits in the future?
When reading such answers, I find it useful to:
have the answer edited when an obsolete link is dead (the second link is dead)
have screenshots to quickly see how the GUI looks like (the question is ...
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Log in required when moving to SuperUser on iPad?
When moving around the sites on StackExchange using Safari on my iPad (not the StackExchange App), I am fine when moving to any site other than SuperUser. When logged in I can switch sites and stay ...
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Why are comments pointing out critical errors in questions getting removed?
The second paragraph in this answer: https://superuser.com/a/1272440/163253 is patently false. I down voted the answer, up voted a few answer that weren't wrong and commented about the problem. The ...
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Proposal: [parental-controls] tag wiki excerpt should be edited, so that it's not Windows-specific
Situation
The tag wiki excerpt of the parental-controls tag makes it clear that the tag is Windows-specific.
Problem
But Mac- and Linux-using parents, too, might want to impose parental controls ...
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What did I do wrong in asking my question?
I asked the following question:
How can I "move" Windows Media Player from my Windows 7 laptop to my Windows 8.1 laptop?
I looked at the help centre, and I had thought that this question ...
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Tag clean up tools
I'm sorry I couldn't think of a witty title.
I've been helping a lot recently with the ongoing tag clean up and I had a couple of ideas on how how to help further and speed up the process.
Firstly, ...
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Is there a way to search for multiple users?
The search function seems to have a limit of one specified user. Say that I want to find a question where I recall that two particular users were posters (say one posted the question, the other was ...
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The external question of these [external] tags
So I went on a mini-tag cleanup for external-drive since it had about 36+ items. And many of them fit perfectly into the external-hard-drive category.
A few still are there, but they are just two ...
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Question was downvoted and put on hold. I don't follow
I went through great length researching this topic because it's been a rather pain in my rear, and I reference what I consider an appropriate amount of detail, and describe the symptom, and lo and ...
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What's the [code] for Tag Cleanup?
Stumbled across another one... The code tag. Again, who is an expert on everything that a "code" could encompass? Too meta, too broad... Get rid of it
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"questions have not been well-received" warning without negative or deleted questions
I get the warning "Wait! Some of your past questions have not been well-received, and you're in danger of being blocked from asking any more." I am struggling to find any cause for this; I cannot find ...
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Everyone's talking about the same [dialogue]
dialog and dialogbox are defined and synonomized. dialogue is undefined and had one question. I edited the tag to change it to [dialog], which leaves [dialogue] empty. If the alternate spelling is ...
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Remove the [label] tag
label is an undefined meta-tag that is used in many ways and does not appear to add value:
naming of system-related objects (partitions, files, ports, devices)
identifying names for rows/columns, ...
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Tag cleanup: [electronics]
electronics appears to be a pretty useless, undefined tag. Many of the questions contain this tag only because computers and related devices use electronics. Aside from that, usage includes:
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Where should [location] be dumped?
The location tag is undefined and is used in numerous ways:
file location
memory location
software/OS installation device
locale
GPS position
IP address/VPN location
geographical source of images
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Rename [printer-scanner] tag?
Suggest broadening the printer-scanner tag to multifunction-printer. Many of these devices include fax and the more generic term would be a logical one that wouldn't cause confusion. There is an ...
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Fold the [card] tag
card does not look like it helps anyone (except the Texas Hold'em players). It doesn't make certain questions easier to find, and has low usage. I recommend getting rid of it.
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How are "close vote review" questions prioritized? Edit / suggestion
When I am reviewing question that are in review to close I most times open the question to read it fully. Sometimes there is a question that already has votes (1) I do my thing (Leave open, close ...
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How to defend new users from unconstructive downvoting
This may be somewhat duplicate, but I think the issue still stands on its own compared to others.
I've noticed a depressing trend for new users, who often write poorly formed questions, having their ...
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Unify the `http-status-codes-nnn` tags under `http-status-codes`
I just asked this question, which I wanted to tag with http-status-codes. However, no such tag exists, and I don't have enough rep to create the tag. I think the tag would nicely unify the existing ...
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Tag for blacklisting - for
As a follow-up to https://meta.superuser.com/questions/6059/tag-for-removal-for and as suggested by slhck ♦, am requesting for the for tag to be blacklisted.
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Reputation Leagues ignore daily reputation cap and reputation loss due to deletion
The reputation leagues seem to ignore reputation loss due to post deletion. The reputation earned for the same post is counted though, in fact, it seems to ignore reputation capping.
Oliver has an ...
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Scan related tags
I think we need to sort out the following scan-related tags:
scanner x 155
scanning x 87
printer-scanner x 9
document-scanning x 5
scan x 1
The rest are barcode-scanner, scan-disk and overscan which ...
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What is the difference between [profile] and [user-profiles]? Which to keep?
There are some questions tagged with both [profile] and [user-profiles]. See also: profile & user-profiles
(Please note that I retagged some questions from user-profile to user-profiles as per ...
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What happened in June/July 2011?
Here are some tracking stats from the last year. What happened in July 2011? SO tracking looks regular, so it's at least not a network-wide glitch.
There's a page views peak on July 1st and 2nd.
On ...
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First Posts queues are frustrating to work through
The 2 main issues with the First Post queue is that it is difficult to do what you need to do, and the controls we do have are unclear and don't appear to actually have much merit much of the time.
If ...
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Stop asking me about cookies / multiple, nonstop popups
When I visit Super User, it asks if I want cookies. I am using macOS 11 / Safari. This is using the default setting Privacy > Prevent cross-site tracking. Not Private Window.
Then I go through the ...
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question body doesn't meet quality standards - how to solve?
I try to ask below question, however however I rephrase it I keep getting "doesn't meet our quality standards" error. How I can resolve it?
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My question already exists on here (without an answer, yet), so I improved that post instead of posting the question again but the edit was rejected
I have a question, which already exists as a question on here: xterm copy to PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD independently However, unfortunately, there is no answer, yet. So I tried to improve that existing ...
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TrickleEdit test question 2
As asked by @Bob in TrickleEdit test question:
This is a test question used while developing an extension.
Please do not upvote or downvote this question.
This question will be deleted ...
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