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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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Nicer <kbd> style

Apple.SE has a much nicer design for kbd tags: It works much better for embedding it in other text (e.g. an explanation) as it contains a sans-serif font and a more subtle border. The style current …
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How are we going to deal with Windows 8 on ARM?

issue that this has never bothered us before, because a site's policy needs to make sense without considering other sites on the network, it's short-sighted: Allowing Windows 8 for ARM will reignite the discussion
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Recommending own products

What's our stance on relevant product recommendations? The paragraph in the FAQ is clearly not enough in this case. As a recent example, a developer of an Outlook plug-in/addon started answering Ou …
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Are purely non-technical answers to technical problems on-topic?

There is always the chance (as, possibly, with the referenced question) that the question is so far off in asking for technology advice, that the only sensible answer is It's not the kind of probl …
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Should questions about hacking networks be allowed?

This is my personal opinion. There are actual, legitimate reasons to do something like this: You want to know how secure your own network is against e.g. wardrivers. To become a locksmith, you need …
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Actually changing things through Meta

Discussion: What do we, as a community, consider right and wrong, good and bad behavior, on and off topic, where do we see the need for change, etc. This is about that last category of topics. … IvoFlipse ♦, shortly after a discussion on a few Meta topics regarding, among other things, changes to the FAQ: My problem with Meta is that there's no way to end or resolve a discussion. …
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Why is looking for alternative programs "not constructive"?

You are specifically looking for a (software) product recommendation. This is not accepted on this site by the diamond moderators team due to the following part of the FAQ: Super User is for computer …
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Apple.SE as off-topic migration path

Update (2013-09) Given that this seems to come up every other month or so, here's an update. Current migration stats (2013-09-08), not counting rejected migrations, are as follows: Web Apps (68) * …
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Recommendations for the BEST?

Going through @Gareth's list of candidates for closing, I find several topics that are asking about the best X, with X being software. We're usually pretty liberal with product recommendations if it' …
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Super User mug design

This week, slhck (pictured) and me received our SU anniversary contest prizes. I really like most of the stuff I got. But the Super User mug design sucks. It gets the Y U NO guy meme totally wr …
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Burninate the 'links' tag

links is used for Hyperlinks (web sites, HTML emails, ...) Soft links and hard links on filesystems Library linking Someone probably even used it for the web browser... Therefore it is not useful …
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question is closed without proper reason

basically anything resembling a benchmark is a valid answer, and all that's left to determine the value of any answer is personal preference — which is where opinion, debate, arguments, [...] or extended discussion
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Why is commenting everywhere restricted to those with enough reputation?

Since the sites are open to anyone without registration, we need to restrict some functionality to users that have shown they understand how the site works and can write good questions and answers (in …
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Nicer <kbd> style

The keyboard on Apple.SE also looks much better than the one on MSO:
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What should we do with those ever-recurring "image entire hard drive" questions?

Create one huge, comprehensive "Here's everything you need to know about hard disk imaging and what you can do with it" community wiki topic, just like we did with the environment variables. Make it …
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