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Files and folders everywhere
I hate to see these perfect examples of our tag problem go, but, oh well.
Please help clean up the tags:
file 1407 - 679 141 questions
folder 1129 - 857 319 questions
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Do we need a canonical question for creating bootable Windows 10 installation media?
To this date, community-faq has only one canonical post for creating bootable installation media for Windows 7 which dates back to 2009. The answers are mostly "use this tool and it works" that are ...
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Burn [version-number], [updates] and related tags
BUMP: I started to write a new question about version, then discovered that it had been raised 5 yrs ago, when there were 47 questions, but not resolved. Then I found this question from 2 yrs ago, ...
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Burnination Request - Invisible
invisible is absolutely useless! Top three questions mean 3 completely different uses.
I suggest getting rid of it.
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What will happen to the Windows-8-Preview tag once Windows 8 goes live?
We currently have 385 questions tagged with windows-8-preview and looking towards the impending release of Windows 8 I am wondering what will happen to the -preview tag.
I guess that we will have a ...
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Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!
Just when we thought we finally got rid of them all they appear to have been resurrected.
adobe x 200 — about 100 software and service products, PDF, Flash, Flex, graphics and video editing, web ...
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Merge [product-key] and [license-key]
product-key and license-key tags seem to be synonyms.
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Clean out our [container]
The container tag appears to be too broadly scoped to be useful in its current state. With its oldest question being from 2010, it is used for many different areas of expertise including but not ...
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Cue the removal of [queue]
I came across the queue tag and found that just about every use had a different definition. There's no tag wiki excerpt.
Proposal:
asterisk queue => asterisk asterisk-queue
printer queue => Is it ...
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Including a link to Super User profile with résumé/cover letter... Thoughts? Experience?
I'm interested to hear what other people think about this. I do editing and production work for a publisher of medical journals with print, web, and iPad content. Though not in the tech industry, ...
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2014 Moderator Election Q&A - Question Collection
In connection with the moderator elections, we will be holding a Q&A with the candidates. This will be an opportunity for members of the community to pose questions to the candidates on the topic ...
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Help Define SuperUser.Com
Jeff Atwood recently suggested that the community begin to help develop some guidelines as to what should be allowed on SuperUser.com so that it doesn't become the great big "catch-all" of computer ...
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Was my suspension for commenting called for?
I have been suspended last week. No reason or previous warning was given,
but presumably it was because of my activity on Tetsujin's answer to
"What to do when my Mac is frozen?".
Since it ...
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Submit your Blog post for the Super User Contest here:
This is an area were users can submit their entries for 'best blog post' part of the Super User 2nd Anniversary Competition. Feel free to post your submission here in its entirety. Other user can ...
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Why and how/by whom my profile name was changed?
I signed up maybe a month and half ago, published a question here and set a customized profile name. Now I return to find my username changed to this. Only the profile pic that I uploaded then stays ...
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How to choose a community?
There are some communities with intersecting subjects with superuser.com. For example I could ask this question about volume control in linux at unix community, or this about hotkeys at software ...
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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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Why is looking for alternative programs "not constructive"?
Background
I had asked this question a while back, and received some great responses, and a great final answer that helped me out quite a ton. Everything was fine until ~yesterday.
Yesterday, however, ...
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Should we bother closing old questions?
The influx of old questions from the Late Answers dump has renewed an old issue. Many of the questions that received these late answers have close-worthy issues, like no longer being on-topic, or ...
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Bad answer repeat offender
There is a certain user I've seen answering some questions on SU that are... well, just bad. Most of his answers consist of a few more questions to the poster (that should be in the comments) and then ...
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Vintage computer on-topic?
Are questions about repairing and maintaining vintage computers and peripherals on-topic? I'm thinking, for example, of
Commodore 64
Atari 800XL
S-100 machines
IBM PC XT
These would seem to fit ...
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Is it proper to ask a question about removing advertisments in an application?
I would like to achieve to get rid of the advertisement in this application.
You can't seem to get rid of this mandatory ad displayed everytime you start it.
Would asking for a practice to remove ...
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Handling questions clearly trying to break some kind of policy, TOS, etc
How should we handle questions that are clearly trying to circumvent policy, controls, corporate firewall, terms of service, etc?
A question on breaking through an Internet access block is ...
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User asks for answer that won't solve their problem
In this question, the asker is asking how to assign 2 IP addresses to their computer using DHCP. However, they clarified their question, and the reason they want to do this is to bypass an IP-based ...
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Can someone write another answer for our canonical malware question?
Our canonical malware question is a gem. At the time it was written, though, the various malware that encrypts your files weren't even a thing. We periodically get questions on how to recover from ...
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What should I have done with this spammy answer?
I flagged this answer (now deleted, so I can't repost its whole text) as spam. I was later greeted by this message in my flagging history:
declined - a moderator reviewed your flag, but found no ...
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Should non-substantial edits be approved or rejected?
Should we accept/improve edit suggestions where the editors could obviously have done more?
Example 1: Fixing only one letter
Take this edit suggestion as an example. The only difference between the ...
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What is the "flag weight" in my profile? [closed]
I have been recently seeing an expression under my profile picture which says:
flag weight 250
What does it mean? What is it for?
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Tagging something with [windows] and [windows-10]
Referencing this question, the community at large approved my edit. I removed the windows tag from the question, and replaced it with with windows-10. Later on, another user edit was made, adding ...
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Tab Tab Tab, is this browser on
We currently have multiple tab tags open on our site:
tabs Tabs are a graphical user interface feature that allows multiple documents to be contained within a single window.
browser-tabs
The tag ...
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Do we really need the [executable] or [exe] tags?
We have two tags representing 'executable programs':
executable
An executable is a fully compiled program that can be run without further processing.
exe (tag was merged into executable)
An ...
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Super User mid 2012 tag/question cleanup [closed]
During my course of reviewing, editing & general janitorial cleanup, I ran into a few tags that were pretty much useless. Since there's too much for me to take action up, I'm posting the list here....
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Super User - Suggest adding an operating system tag
When asking a question on Super User, add a suggestion for users to include their "operating system" when adding tags.
It's such a common omission in questions on Super User, I think an extra ...
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Revert [openoffice.org]?
We have openoffice which is synonomized with openoffice.org as the primary. The OpenOffice suite is still around, but not OpenOffice.org. Around five years ago, it became Apache OpenOffice. I ...
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Why is this simple, straightforward question on a standard Windows feature closed as "Needs details"?
Once again, I find myself confused on why a question was closed as "Unclear/Needs Details":
Why are there empty files in %localappdata%\Microsoft\WindowsApps?
What is unclear about that ...
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Is it considered bad form to make question titles more accurate?
I recently noticed a question I replied to some time ago had a very generic title, so I put in an edit to make it more specific to the problem described in the hope that it would lead more people to ...
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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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Extending the range of wireless-extender
Is it possible to get the tag range-extender converted to a synonym of wireless-extender?
The questions in each category seem to be talking about extending the range of wireless signals.
What does ...
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Why does the number of votes to complete a review vary?
Why do some posts require only one vote to handle:
link to review
link to review
While others require multiple votes?
link to review
link to review
(All of these examples are from ...
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Can we empty out [null]?
Seriously, I have no idea what null is for - null characters, null processes, errors, null strings, nil, nada, nothing, blank, empty?
I really don't see the point of null when it's not specific ...
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No excuse for [odd-behavior]
odd-behavior doesn't seem to be very meaningful. It's very vague as it just means something is acting oddly, failing to denote any cohesive topic. I suggest that this tag be deleted.
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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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Question of the... Month!
Yeah, you heard right, it's coming back!
It's been almost three years since the last time time Question of the Week was featured on the blog (#46) and
it's about time that it came back!
We (the ...
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Let's do something about all the old link-only answers
We do a pretty good job removing or repairing link-only answers nowadays, but there are boatloads of old link-only answers sitting ignored or at a slight negative score, written largely by users that ...
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Lets turn the blinking off ... on .. off.. on ... PERMANTENTLY OFF
The blinking tag is used in 18 questions. Mostly about blinking LEDs, cursors and monitors which turn on and off.
I suggest we permanently blink it out of existence.
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Merge or synonymize [indentation], [indent], [autoindent]
indentation exists with 60 questions. The content is pretty uniform; all about indentation issues in text editors, so I think it's a useful tag.
That said, there are a couple of variations of the ...
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Can we PLEASE get a definitive answer on what to do with low-quality software recommendation answers?
There are numerous Meta posts on software recommendation answers, and the advice on posting them seems to be universal. How to handle low quality ones that have been posted gets murkier by the day.
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Why is superuser.com also served on port 8080?
I noticed this while Googling for "Notice removed Draw attention"; all of the superuser.com results have an explicit port in their URL.
Indeed it works.
http://superuser.com:8080/
http://meta....
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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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Burninate or clean up the tag [dual]
We currently have 48 questions tagged dual.
There questions are on different subjects:
Dual ISPs
Dual dual mail accounts
Dual monitors
Dual graphics cards
Dual boot
Dual OS installations (...