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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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Close question for no reseach effort
There's an argument for the other side, as well. Why not rewrite those questions, where possible, into good canonical questions? In the end, SU/SE is supposed to be the place to do your research.
On …
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Do we really need multiple [ubuntu]s?
I would argue that the version is actually often important - there have been significant changes through the versions and I certainly would not expect any but the most generic (as in, "would apply to …
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Is there a policy for or against providing executables and other self hosted downloads?
My specific case is on my answer here.
Is there any policy (on SuperUser or StackExchange) in either direction concerning providing an executable I uploaded myself for others to download? Of course, …
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Collect the multitude of "SMART - failure predicted" questions?
We have half a dozen questions asking about a boot-time SMART warning:
On booting my laptop warns me about failure of hard disk is imminent...can it be repaired or to be replaced..?
Is there a scrip …
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So, here's a stats site for the challenge!
Edit: As of 2015, I've stopped maintaining that domain and site. Someone else owns the domain now. If anyone is still interested in the data or wants to see the site back up, leave a comment and I'll …
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TrickleEdit: Queuing edits to prevent flooding
Is there a thing to queue edits and automatically apply them slowly (assuming there hasn't been a preempting edit)?
— Ben N on chat
Let's write a script!
StackApps (placeholder): https://stacka …
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Are Adobe Creative Cloud questions on-topic for Super User?
There is some overlap depending on whether the question involves local programs or not.
If the question is about a local application (e.g. Photoshop CC), then it would be on-topic.
If it were about …
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Get rid of [scaling]
scaling is a tag that covers multiple disparate areas. Some would be better retagged as display-scaling, while others deal with image and video scaling (and even things like PDF zoom!) and perhaps don …
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Combine [l2-cache] and [l3-cache] into [cpu-cache]?
l2-cache: 6 questions
l3-cache: 1 question
Is it really necessary to be so specific? We already have cache and cpu which together cover the CPU cache. cpu-cache could be created but having separate …
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How should command line related questions be tagged?
Your last point is wrong. ConEmu and Console2 are not shells (to use the *nix term), they're terminal emulators, much like the default conhost.
cmd.exe is more equivalent to *nix shells like bash and …
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Repeated attempts at question vandalism, what's going on here, and what do we do?
I've proposed that suggested edits not be available to users under 10 reputation on protected questions such as this one. Targeted questions such as this one could then be protected to prevent this k …
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Should every answer involving registry edits contain a warning to back up the registry?
No, I don't think this should be enforced. There are several reasons:
"The registry" isn't some mythical beast, and any changes there are really no more dangerous than changing arbitrary (system?) f …
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Combine [l2-cache] and [l3-cache] into [cpu-cache]?
Create cpu-cache and make both l2-cache and l3-cache synonyms of it.
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Should we allow theoretical questions, those asked due to curiosity? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Are “explain the technology to me” questions on-topic?
You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended …
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First time visitors cannot upload images - This is annoying
Low-rep users actually can upload images with the built-in upload tool (to stack.imgur.com). What they can't do is display those images inline, which is what the upload tool inserts. It's a little uni …
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