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 73918

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.

256 votes
1 answer
7k views

How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?

My rep is going to reach 3,000 soon (2,987 at the time of this post), so I should be able to vote to close soon. How should my flagging habits change when I gain this ability? What should I do when …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
55 votes

The monster that can't be killed

It may be a good idea to have the tag blacklisted. I've reached out to Community Managers at the Tavern on the Meta as this can only be done by Stack Exchange employees. SE developers can blacklist …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
43 votes
1 answer
866 views

Please don't vote to close Excel questions as off-topic

During routine review queue patrols, I noticed that several microsoft-excel questions were being voted to close as off-topic: https://superuser.com/review/close/335558 https://superuser.com/review/c …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
33 votes
2 answers
1k views

Dealing with a troll that's flooding the site with plagiarized answers

Over the last several days, we've been seeing a novel trolling attack on Super User: a flood of answers containing plagiarized content posted by a user called "Marlin Woods": The user creates a new …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
32 votes
1 answer
21k views

The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses

This is a list of known spammers, spam domains, and IP addresses to which these domains point. This list is derived from spam patterns observed on Super User as well as information from DNS and rever …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
26 votes

Is "It's impossible" a valid answer, or is it a comment?

If what the OP asked for is clearly impossible, it is acceptable to state so in a full answer, as long as a reasonable explanation is provided. If you just want to say that it's impossible, it's not w …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
25 votes
Accepted

The Master Spam List: Known spammers, spam domains, and associated IP addresses

Tenorshare and affiliates Data recovery, password recovery, video conversion, and PDF conversion spam. Has various other names such as SmartKey. The scale of the spam and the fact that multiple malwar …
25 votes

2014 Community Moderator Election Results

Congratulations, Journeyman Geek and Mokubai. I'm happy we have two new moderators ready to make Super User better for all. As the third-place candidate in this election, I have to say that it was tr …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
24 votes
4 answers
681 views

Should we edit out spam from spam posts?

An established user had edited a blatant spam post (10k-only), replacing it with the following content: UTTER SPAM Please delete me. I feel that this is superfluous and masks the actual spam content …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
22 votes
1 answer
475 views

Spambots promoting personal enhancement products, can we better defend against them?

I'm seeing a disturbing increase in spam posts promoting personal enhancement products such as male enhancement, hair care, dieting, brain enhancement, and other similar products. The following list ( …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
19 votes
2 answers
216 views

Merge [bugcheck] into [bsod]

bugcheck contains 16 questions, practically all of which are about bsod. "Bugcheck" is the technical term for a BSOD and so the tags should be merged. Your thoughts?
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
18 votes
2 answers
438 views

What should we do with answers that are low quality but otherwise legitimate attempts to ans...

In my extensive time on the review queues and 10k tools, there's one thing that's always been bothering me: low-quality answers that consist of no more than a few sentences and often a link to externa …
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
18 votes

Community Promotion Ads - 2015

17 votes
2 answers
126 views

No excuse for [odd-behavior]

odd-behavior doesn't seem to be very meaningful. It's very vague as it just means something is acting oddly, failing to denote any cohesive topic. I suggest that this tag be deleted.
bwDraco's user avatar
  • 46.4k
16 votes

Community Promotion Ads - 2014


1
2 3 4 5 6
15 30 50 per page