Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 364367

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.

63 votes
3 answers
1k views

The monster that can't be killed

The microsoft tag is like something from a sci-fi horror movie. This manufacturer meta tag was cleaned out in March of this year, but people keep using it. I just fixed the third question in the las …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
42 votes
3 answers
758 views

What do a writer, taxi, and horse have in common?

Answer: we don't yet have questions with the hack tag covering these, perhaps the only common uses of the term not included. hack and its synonym hacking are undefined and have 44 questions. The ter …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
36 votes
Accepted

Should you ask/answer your own questions to make a public KB?

Absolutely! Posting self-answered questions is encouraged and there is even a built-in provision to simplify doing it. Just don't fill up the site with trivial stuff. And if you start posting tons …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
35 votes
4 answers
468 views

Concept of "conditional" downvotes?

Down-voted questions seem to fall into two categories: fixable and unfixable. Some questions are just inappropriate, easily answerable with minimal search effort, or have other problems for which not …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
34 votes
1 answer
367 views

Editing of recently closed questions

This post is basically to share something I came across on Meta Unix & Linux. Kusalananda♦, a moderator there, posted Editing questions recently put on hold (don't). The gist is something that I don …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
28 votes
1 answer
425 views

Do we have any experts on "applications"?

The applications tag has suddenly been added to a lot of posts by an enthusiastic tagger. There are now over 400 questions. I didn't do an exhaustive review of these, but for the ones I looked at, t …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
27 votes
1 answer
459 views

Strange audit result

In the Close Votes review queue, I got Graphics Card Adapter Is Facing Backwards as an audit question. The question had a colorful history: closed by a moderator as unclear, subsequently edited a num …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
26 votes
8 answers
782 views

Rat's nest of tags

In the discussion in the comments about [time-management] and [time-tracking], there was a thought to combine the two tags, but separate the questions between meat and silicon, calling the meat group [ …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
22 votes
1 answer
292 views

Rename macos tag?

We just did a tag synonym reversal for osx and macos. The move was technically correct, but it's creating an unanticipated problem (at least for me, I'm just assuming some others are similarly affect …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
21 votes
2 answers
312 views

Are questions about Chrome OS on-topic?

The primary purpose of Chrome OS is to run applications that are off-topic on Super User (web apps, plus it can run Android apps, both off-topic). The devices it runs on (Chromebooks), are designed …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
20 votes
1 answer
4k views

What is the definition of "corporate IT support"?

I've run into a few questions like this one: Restricting certain printers to certain programs. The question was written by someone working in a company. I get the impression that it is a small busin …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
20 votes
1 answer
190 views

Unmerge [msi] from [windows-installer]

A recent edit to the Manufacturer Tags question spotlighted a problem with an old action. Five years ago, the post The msi tag is ambiguous identified that the msi tag was being used for both the Win …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
20 votes
1 answer
337 views

Inappropriate opinion-based closings

Computer expertise is inter-disciplinary. Many questions relating to computer hardware can be answered by users with a little hard science or engineering background. There is basic theory and design …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
20 votes
3 answers
4k views

aria2 vs. aria2c?

A proposed tag wiki edit raised a question about two tags: aria2 and aria2c. The first has 5 questions, the second has 8, and a number of these questions have both. I'm not familiar with the program …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k
19 votes
0 answers
154 views

Synonomize tags for new Firefox

Quantum is the release name for Firefox 57. It looks like people are referring to the new browser by either name, and we have tags for both. It is probably useful to have both tags, but they should …
fixer1234's user avatar
  • 27.8k

1
2 3 4 5
20
15 30 50 per page