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How to choose a community?
If you are confident that a question is on-topic for a specific site, go ahead and ask the question on that site. Don't cross-post the same question on multiple sites.
In theory, the site with the mo …
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My questions were closed as duplicates. How come?
Let's see. You're:
Taking existing content from other users on SuperUser and re-posting a subset of it in your own answers.
Asking extremely simplistic questions which are of low quality and can eas …
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Why 1 rep users allowed to downvote?
He doesn't have enough reputation to downvote either questions or answers, so any downvotes are coming from another user.
Please see here in the Help Center which explains that a user requires 125 r …
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What’s with all the colorful avatars?
http://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/15542695#15542695
...and yeah... that's basically it.
You are a fool for asking such a question. Do you realize what you are getting yourself into? …
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how do you stop a user from harassment?
The Help Center says it better than I can, here --
Harassment and bullying. If you see a hostile interaction, flag it. If it keeps up, disengage — we'll handle it. If something needs staff att …
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Where to ask the question “Which X have the largest share of users?”
Statistics about software usage are transient. This means the actual data is ever-changing. By contrast, answers on Super User are permanent.
Good answers should be just as valid 10 years down the r …
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Better understanding "not an answer" flags
I think this flag was declined because the moderator saw the following text in the user's answer...
On going into BIOS and checking the boot sequence I found that the Kindle had become the 1st boo …
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How to deal with answers I cannot check anymore?
As someone who's asked a question on the site, you have a few options as to what you can do with each answer:
Upvote it and accept the answer
Upvote it but don't accept the answer
Don't vote on it b …
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How do I rollback an edit to my question
I don't see the rollback link for this edit.
To roll back, you need to click the edited… link which brings you to the revisions.
There, you should see rollback links for all previous revision …
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Why are people voting to close my question?
I'm of two minds on this...
I've observed over my years on SU that there's a general trend towards being less and less tolerant of questions that "used to be" acceptable. This could be a meta-modera …
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Would a question about the effect of modified sine waves on the AC adapter for a laptop be o...
I am no expert in this particular knowledge domain, but my feeling is that the Electrical Engineering site would probably accept the question well enough that they'd be able to provide some degree of …
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would a discussion concerning my emacs fingers growing a bit stiffer be appropriate?
Of course this is off-topic. Your fingers are not a part of a computer, nor are they software. You could ask this on Quora or maybe chat, but I don't think any existing SE site would field such a ques …
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Do I have to migrate my question to Stack Overflow?
No, AutoHotKey is a scripting language and is thus pretty well on-topic for Super User.
However, what you're trying to do, and the way you're going about it, is not a very good solution for the task …
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Why is the header of this site not fixed?
stackoverflow and meta.stackoverflow sometimes have different UI code than the other SE sites. IIRC they run on a separate server too.
The header of this site is not fixed, because _________ (fill in …
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Request to reopen question 689718
Given enough time and resources, anything is possible. There is no physical, answerable, definite reason "why system RAM cannot have a battery backup". In my mind's eye, I can easily imagine a RAM chi …