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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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How are we going to deal with Windows 8 on ARM?

Just to get this discussion going, before the product actually launches and we have to make hasty decisions. … As a reference, here's the previous discussion: Should Tablet Computer questions be allowed on Super User? Coming next fall, Windows 8 will launch and it will also be available on ARM. …
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Are you interested in writing blog posts?

After the blog became officially blessed by Jeff Atwood we've got some weekly posts and daily traffic on it, with an occasional spike on some of the most interesting blog posts. However, anyone with a …
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High reputation users having trouble understanding Super User?

We should stop rewarding unwanted behaviour For instance giving rep to duplicate questions/answers makes it worthwhile NOT to close it. If people know there are duplicates and they won't get rep for …
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Too many upvotes for poor quality answers

I recently complained over at Meta.Programmers that they were upvoting poor quality and often times very short answers. But I also keep an eye out for SU's hottest questions and I see exactly the same …
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Help us clean up Super User

Waaaay back in the early days of Stack Overflow Jeff wrote a blog post about the Stack Overflow Question Lifecycle. Who decides what questions don’t fit? Trusted members of the Stack Overflow c …
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Suggestions for updating our FAQ

Based on the results of the vote for a change of policy we've drawn the conclusion that the majority of the users (who voted) are in favor of allowing appropriate tablet questions. So the new policy …
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Is a modern phone not a computer?

The distinction is there for a good reason. Yes your fancy phone has CPU right? So you'd expect the Linux kernels for ARM would probably also be the same right? Well they aren't, which causes all sor …
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Q&A with the candidates in 2011 moderator election

After the example of the Math.SE site I have some questions that I would love to see each nominee respond to in their nomination (if they choose to do so): Is there anything you would want to change …
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Wouldn't it be better to reverse the reputation used by superuser.com?

As @Cor and @Ngu already stated: we don't want people to game the system or use it to spam, so there's a threshold to prevent them from doing so. However, it only takes one good answer and/or questio …
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Is it kosher to accept your answer on your own question?

Yes it is, but generally I recommend you gives others at least 24 or 48 hours to try and get an answer in. Who knows? Perhaps someone else even has a better answer, but they might be scared away if y …
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"One question to rule them all" questions on SuperUser

SuperUser is haunted by repeated questions on topics as: Antivirus suggestions Virus/Spyware removing Best practices for troubleshooting common problems Best buy guides for hardware and software I …
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15 votes
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Close not computer related questions on StackOverflow instead of migrating them to SuperUser

Recently the SuperUser FAQ has been updated to be a little more strict on what questions should be asked Super User is for computer enthusiasts and power users. If you have a question about … …
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Are Hackintosh questions off topic because of community consensus or just moderation policy?

In my opinion, I supported Diago back then and didn't see the need to leave an additional comment to show it. Here's a related question about the tag that shows how I feel about them: Banned Tag Prop …
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Simultaneous online users

Do you have any reason to believe questions aren't being answered at the moment? In other words, displaying who's online won't raise your chances of getting a (good) answer. Besides, you'd often want …
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Should older questions be flagged as duplicates of more recent ones if those have better ans...

In the end what matters is giving our users better answers. Given the question wasn't closed as a dupe before getting better answers, I'd say the order is no longer important. So I'd say yes: close t …
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