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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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Existing question does not cover recent versions: Extend or create new question?
It's still the same question IMO. The Op asks about "Windows" in general, and then specifies that, in their case, XP and Vista interest them.
Since answers (and questions) are not actually intende …
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Is there any way to help mitigate the number of duplicate answers on SuperUser?
I wonder why so many duplicate questions make it to be triaged by humans on Stack Exchange in certain communities so frequently in the unanswered queues?
Because people would rather post t …
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Is my answer so improbable or too low quality?
I think the cause of this is that you asked a question about a presumed solution, instead of the actual problem.
You asked "how to tell if it's cloned?", instead of concentrating on the actual proble …
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Questions Asking for Product Recommendations
On that linked question, it looks like you were looking to recommend software in a comment to the answerer. Which, if you want to do that in a comment, I see no harm - but it'd probably be better lef …
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Was I wrong answering an off-topic question?
From: Should I answer off-topic questions?
Accepted Answer: "Generally speaking, answering questions that should get closed encourages bad behavior."
From: Is it bad to answer off-topic questions, k …
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Closed question information blurb seems -- wrong/confusing?
This question has been asked before and already has an answer. If those answers do not fully address your question, please ask a new question.
This seems to suggest that duplicate questions are f …
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Question incorrectly marked as duplicate
That was me, and DavidPostill nailed it in his comment:
you had the wrong tag on it. The dup question was for Windows and you are asking about Linux. It seems the question has been reopened...
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Expand "How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, viruses or rootkits from my PC?" beyond...
Should we expand How can I remove malicious spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans or rootkits from my PC? to not be limited to just Windows PCs?
It's currently tagged Windows specifically (for e …
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Are hardware (port, cable, etc.) visual identification questions allowed or not?
Are hardware (port, cable, etc.) visual identification questions allowed or not? Specifically when it's basically just "What's this port?" and a picture.
Examples:
What is a name of this port? And …
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What should I name my chat bot? And updates to greeting message
"John Cavil, bot for hire"
@Mr.Code Welcome to Root Access chat for Super Users! Please don't ask
if you can ask or if anyone's around; just ask your question, and if
anyone's free and inter …
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Is it rude to answer a question that has been solved in comments?
Answers should be quality. Things like references, proper formatting, etc. should be included to aim for quality (goes for Questions too IMO).
Sometimes I'm not inclined to leave a quality answer, …
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Is it proper to ask a question about removing advertisments in an application?
I think it smells fishy, like you're trying to get something for nothing, and those things don't usually go over well (along with the likes of Hackintoshes and averting IT security policies at your wo …
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What do you do if you want to ask a question, but someone already asked it, and there wasn't...
Editing the original question to make it better (expanding, clarifying, etc., without changing it's intent) is another good way to get it more attention, and possibly more answers.
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The [failure] tag, a story of fail?
I say it's useless as a tag. Half of the questions in the computer world could be tagged "failure". :)
How about a "successful" tag?
"I keep getting memory failures but it passes all tests I run?"
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