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When posting on super user keep getting "An error occured submiting the question"

SuperUser was recently switched over to the CloudFlare content distribution network, and they are having some problems with the integration in the early-going. If you have this problem, keep trying, o …
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1 ATI Radeon card in PCIe 2.0 slot for display. How to make use of AMD FireStream cards plac...

I don't think it's been asked here, though I may be wrong (SU has way too many questions for me to sort through). …
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'Wall of text' question

If you had vote to close privileges (as of this writing it appears you don't have enough rep), I'd say you should also vote to close as "Unclear what you're asking". There are two approaches to deali …
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OP edited question substantially after answer(s) were posted

For me, it comes down to how drastically the OP edited their question. Since the "spectrum" of possible edit-changeiness (how much the content of the question was edited) is infinite in a continuum, I …
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At what point do regexes become programming questions?

On the other hand, questions that themselves ask about actual programming languages (how do I do X in Python, Bash, etc.), are more likely to be considered off-topic and migrated to SO. … Migration due to better-suitedness of a topic to SO is primarily reserved, in my mind, for questions that get very poor answers (or no answers at all) on SU, and for whom the subject matter is pretty clearly …
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Wrongly Closing/on Hold'ing questions?

The community guidelines consist of a "bedrock" of concepts that 99.9% of folks agree upon, and a sort of "case law" of precedent from past questions and moderator decisions. … don't fall into the broad groups that are nevertheless acceptable, and questions that do fall into one of the broad groups that aren't acceptable). …
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what is the purpose of down-voting a question?

Questions like this are: IN FAVOR of not closing it: Specific Answerable Topical Shows some cursory research, or at least tells me what they've tried (in this case, very little) Shows specific command … Then again, I'd be more than happy to close it as a duplicate, because many questions which are asked by help vampires have been asked before. …
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Why do high-reputation users tend to have lots of answers but very few or no questions, and ...

A lot of the good, topical questions on SuperUser fall in or around the same areas of expertise, so if someone is making a lot of answers (and the answers are good/valid/upvoted/etc), chances are they … On the other hand, these users may have accounts elsewhere on the SE network where they primarily ask questions and post few answers. …
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Is Tumbleweed badge an achievement or otherwise?

Technically you can get the Tumbleweed badge for a number of reasons, not all of which are contingent upon you asking bad questions: Asking them at the wrong time, so they get pushed off the front-page … But this is just a badge they created because they feel bad for users who don't get their questions answered. …
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What should happen to a question which the OP realised was not necessary?

Deleting questions that are valid questions on Super User just diminishes the quality of the site and the usefulness of the site. I'm sure other users have had the same problem as the OP. …
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Why are some Super User answers not sorted by up-votes?

See https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/127234/201411
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Questions about bypassing or circumventing network security

I have seen a number of questions on how to bypass network security. … Our policy on "gray area" questions has generally been: if the question is of good quality and topical, when in doubt, let it stay on the site. …
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