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user 36744
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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Should questions about hacking networks be allowed?
If I teach someone how to pick a lock, it's his decision if he wants to become a burglar or a locksmith.
If a question is like "Hey, how do I crack my neighbors WiFi?" then those are horrible questio …
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A new way to clean up tags
When someone discovers a horrible tag, they post a new question on Meta Super User about it, tagging it with discussion in combination with tag-cleanup-request. …
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Problem solved by customer support with a premade executable
Explaining that you contacted support and received a tool from them, which solves the issue, is a perfectly acceptable answer to the question.
Anyone with the same problem will be happy to read that. …
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Please do not remove general OS tags
There is no policy like that.
If you see edits like that, and they're otherwise fine, improve and add the tag back. If there are only tags being removed, reject the edit.
In case this is a specific …
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Where do you draw the line between a "stupid" question and an acceptable one?
What is "obvious" or "stupid" is really dependent on the reader. What might be obvious (and thus a stupid question) to you, might not be for me.
Some people may say that a question is stupid only bec …
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How to make people do their civic duty?
If you don't want your government to be run by people you hate, go vote.
If you don't want that only 1% of all members get to decide who looks credible and who doesn't, go vote.
But it's not that si …
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Files and folders everywhere
I hate to see these perfect examples of our tag problem go, but, oh well.
Please help clean up the tags:
file 1407 - 679 141 questions
folder 1129 - 857 319 questions
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How does one become a top contributor and solves computer problems independenly?
You ask yourself, "How did that person know to use netsh?". Yet, you just learned about netsh yourself.
The difference is if you start looking into netsh yourself now, so that you can learn what else …
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Tag wiki for [php] is out of date, or Should tag wikis include "current" version numbers?
I don't think version numbers are helpful in any shape or form in our tag wiki.
If someone wants to know what the latest version of a software is, the Super User tag wiki is not the right place to le …
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Is bumping a question OK?
Bumping questions, in the sense of pushing them to the top of the active list by editing them, is always encouraged. As long as the edit in itself is valid!
Editing a question solely for the purpose …
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Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]?
I feel like I must point out something here, and let me take How to obtain the result of a chemical reaction given two components? as an example.
Just because someone is asking for a tool to solve a …
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