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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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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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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 …
15
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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 …
15
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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 …
14
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Nicer <kbd> style
The keyboard on Apple.SE also looks much better than the one on MSO:
12
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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 …
12
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Open-ended questions... That old chestnut
All of your examples are:
off topic (clear shopping recommendation without any interesting aspects, e.g. exotic requirements),
not a real question, since they're just too broad, and
not constructiv …
12
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Submit your Blog post for the Super User Contest here:
@slhck provided valuable suggestions and proof-read most of this. Thanks Werner!
Customizing Your Bash Command Prompt
When you're working on your Linux or Mac OS X system's command line, the promp …
12
votes
What time of the day is Super User getting the least traffic?
Here are some usage statistics from Quantcast, which is used to track usage of SE sites (you'll see it as a tracking pixel when you check the loaded resources for each page).
Unfortunately, I haven …
11
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What do I do with useful information on a post unrelated to the question?
Many times, users ask the wrong questions. They have a problem, and a partial solution, and ask How do I finish this partial solution?, instead of asking How do I solve my problem?
In these cases, I …
11
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How can we take care of our old duplicates?
*I'm not referring to the Windows 8 Preview discussion here. …
11
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What is the proper resolution for tags hijacking?
I also remember a discussion about sas (Serial Attached SCSI and a statistics program). Questions about either are usually better suited for other Stack sites though. …
11
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How much bytes a kilobyte?
I don't think we should act here and enforce one or the other.
Considering the relative obscurity of binary prefixes (e.g. KiB for 1024 byte), and the fact that e.g. Windows uses the SI prefixes but …