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Is the superuser site the place for troubleshooting?

Per the /faq : Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about ... computer hardware computer software … and it is not about videogames or co …
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Should shopping and/or hardware recommendation questions be allowed on SuperUser?

This SU question you cited is OK in my opinion https://superuser.com/questions/96934/any-cheap-and-good-mouse-with-extra-buttons Because it's somewhat timeless relatively constrained in scope sor …
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jZip possible malicious software.

I removed the last reference on a question https://superuser.com/search?q=jzip Let me know if this needs to be added to the blacklist in some way; that's a developer only function because it is so d …
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community-awarded bounty?

Yes, community can award the bounty under certain conditions, see https://superuser.com/faq#bounty
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Should I write question when I know answer?

Yes, this is explicitly allowed per the https://superuser.com/faq It’s also perfectly fine to ask and answer your own question, as long as you pretend you’re on Jeopardy: phrase it in the form of …
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Synergy specific entry page

See my answer at Is it okay to use Stack Overflow as the support forum for a product or project? One way is as you saw with Subsonic -- where they simply provide a single link to Stack Overflow a …
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Why is there a different SVN revision listed on SU and SO/SF/meta?

sometimes we do site specific builds. There is a one click build, just not one click "every site must be the same version" build.
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Is meta.stackoverflow's engine a competitor for uservoice for 3rd party sites?

Doubtful -- part of the reason we want to use our own engine is that there was some overlap with UserVoice a sizable contingent of our users actively hated UserVoice our engine can plausibly do wha …
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4 votes

Should questions concerning specific websites be allowed on Super User?

I do not care for them myself -- although as Ivo points out it depends on the question. In general, I'd say it has to do with whether it's a simple "support" question or a real "power user" question …
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Why so many barriers for newcomers on this dicussion forum?

Many of the barriers exist because we allow 100% anonymous participation. If we didn't have some hoops for new users to jump through, we would quickly be overrun by spam and other sorts of nefarious …
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Superuser off-topic restrictions

Let's say Super User was a site about automobiles. Just because you like to listen to the radio in your car, does not mean the automobile site is about radio stations. Radio hardware (aka the Web Br …
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Hide anniversary notice bar

We could insert it as a message in everyone's message queue so it would be dismissable.. but the 90% of traffic that is anonymous (unregistered, no account) users would never see it then.
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Is there any point answering questions that have had no recent activity?

I think yes -- if it's a good answer, I will always upvote it, regardless of how old the question is. However, this assumes the original question is interesting enough for me to click on in some way …
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On the 1st anniversary of Superuser, I just want to say "Thanks".

Indeed, and we're saying "thank you" to the whole community that made Super User work! http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/08/super-user-1-year-anniversary-super-contest/
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Multiple Part Questions

My rule of thumb: I will tolerate a question with two parts as long as the parts are reasonably related. A question with more than two parts, or where the (n) questions it asks are wildly different …
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