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Can we be nicer to folks whose English isn't that great?
I've noticed over the past few days a handful of comments that have been a little too aggressive about poor English. I mod messaged someone who pretty much asked how someone was going to write his res …
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Don't hate the [player] hate the tag
The player tag feels like a classic meta tag, and one likely to be misused. I saw it in use for a question what seems to be a glorified cd player but could refer to audio, video or other software that …
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Journeyman Geek's Monthly Bounty Hunt: July/August
I'm ploughing back some of my rep into the community, and hopefully getting some good/better answers up for questions. I really wouldn't be able to chase down all the worthy candidates for such a thin …
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What are some of the user-created april fools gags that we've had in the past?
Sure, we have unicorns. We've also has some of our own april fools jokes on site. Sadly, they are often a pain to find, since they're deleted. What are some of these gags? Can we see what they are thr …
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Tag cleanup weekend 1 - After action reports and impressions
We had about 4-5 users who were actively/obviously cleaning up, and at least one complaint of over efficiency.
How was tag cleanup weekend?
More specifically, if you were involved, what tags did yo …
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The Super User blog is going away
We've been trying to kickstart the SU blog again, and well, it's mostly been tumbleweeds. We've had little to no activity, despite a few well meaning plans to.
That said, networkwide, blogs are going …
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What's our threshold for profanity in comments?
I just handled a bunch of flags on older comments, flagging the use of the word "bitch" as "complain" or "is a pain".
Now certain words (mostly ones with 4 letters for some reason), I can get - but i …
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Windows Live Messenger - What do we do with completely dead software?
Windows Live Messenger will be completely obsolete as of 31st October. Thats in china - it got killed off in march 2013 everywhere else.
As a result, any questions to do with WLM will be quite useles …
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I CAN HAZ DRIVERZ KTHXBAI?
I notice that there's lots of questions involving people asking for drivers for specific pieces of hardware. Invariably these questions are rather specific/localised and aren't really all that useful …
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Super User is trialling the new image hosting system
While generally moderator coverage on meta is sufficient, and we're told community team members are monitoring the status of the trial
We're keeping this post open for meta discussion - issues like If …
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How is the term "Computer" defined on Super User?
The arguments over whether a tablet counts as a computer this rather lovely Ars Technica article on why they think a tablet is a PC as well as a chat conversation over this question got me thinking ov …
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Cleanup Week? When and How?
We have nearly a thousand posts with potentially orphaned images with the HTTPS move - folks are trickling these in. We also have had an ongoing project to fix tags that could use some love, or at lea …
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Logistics for tag cleanup weekend 1
I've set up a room for coordinating these things for the actual day and this may be useful for discussion and getting things done faster. …
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On pro forma comments... Can we put some common sense into using them?
As a mod you sometimes notice things getting somewhat abused.
Here's an example
Names blurred out since its about the action, not the people.
I see, 3 instances of the right thing.
I see a fla …
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Should we be having periodic, full throttle cleanups?
Right now, we have a whole load of tags we need to kill off, but it's an uphill struggle.
We try not to flood the front page (and with awesome moderator powers, we could actually do that), but hones …