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The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.

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Are Easter Eggs on topic, or not?

Recently this happened, I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because "You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face." as per superuser.com/he …
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Are Easter Eggs on topic, or not?

I think we should lighten up. If it's otherwise on topic, we should allow it. We should not force people asking a question to clear the burden of "practical". And, an "actual problems that you face" …
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How the community can better be served: please stop closing questions that are on topic

This is a personal anecdote. It may help the community reflect on how it can better serve its audience. I previously asked this question, "Does a 9th Generation X1 Carbon support more than 2 TB of sto …
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Is it legal to post content from overclock.net, if it is against their TOS? [closed]

One user is posting pirated content from the site overclock.net, here is what their TOS say: Posting Content and Assets By posting content: You have confirmed that you have not made this content …
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How come you can ask an unqualified "how do I do $x?"

This is in response to this question Why can't I ask if hardware exists that does something, or fits a need? I'm going to try one more way to address this. How come you can't ask, Does $x exist? B …
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Questions about Temple OS?

I don't exactly understand the topic here, computer software Is a bit vague. The "Help Center" goes on to say programming and software development is off topic. Let's say though there was an …
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Is the Commodore 64 Mini on topic?

Moreover, we've already had this discussion numerous times and it's been determined that proprietary Windows on ARM was on topic, and so were tablets even. This is Linux on ARM. …
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Fair application of non-existent rules [closed]

Previously we had a discussion about ReactOS. …
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Super User website applications policy

I think most people want a term to describe: single user applications, including configuration of (Excel, Powerpoint) multi-user applications where the administration or configuration is not in ques …
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Super User website applications policy

I think most people want a term to describe: Single user applications, including configuration of (Excel, PowerPoint). Multi-user applications where the administration or configuration is not in que …
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Should we outright ban a few tags when we know they don't belong here?

We could do a lot to better serve the SU community if we killed off some tags en masse. If we're going to maintain many confusingly similar sites, perhaps we should just reject tags like nginx which r …
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Why can't I ask if hardware exists that does something, or fits a need?

I can understand not wanting shopping questions: that is a comparison between two products that exist that relies on the subjective input of the person answering. But if I have a need, it seems I shou …
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Closure of questions regarding pre-release/beta software

First, it would be my position that all software that is commonly available and used by end-users should be on topic. This specific piece of software has always been declared "alpha" by the creators. …
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