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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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Three free video cards for Valued Community Members(tm)

Ahh to freely roam the land as the suspiciously Che Guevara-like character of Just Cause, to duck and cover with Alex and her best friend Dog, to carve the streets of Burnout city, to wax the tails of …
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VOTE for the Most Valued Super User

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What's the difference between [windows-defender] and [microsoft-defender]?

While colloquially the two terms are often used to refer to the same thing, they are not, in fact, the same thing. Windows Defender is the desktop security client default for Microsoft Windows OS and …
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

For the second, I check out Meta regularly and answer when I think I have something to add to the discussion. …
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Link-only answer - but already self-explanatory

If the answer is software or drivers published by a reputable source (manufacturer, OEM, etc) with an established web presence then telling people what they need and how to get them and then providing …
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Submit your Blog post for the Super User Contest here:

A Super User's Toolbox For the last 10 years I have been fortunate enough to experience many perspectives on IT support. From the early days cutting my tech teeth on my own first computer running …
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Question in close queue is marked as duplicate, but the duplicate is terrible!

As comments have noted, the criteria I would use when judging which of two otherwise duplicate questions to be marked duplicate is based on quality, not time. If one of the questions is very recent a …
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I think SU has a newbie-biting problem

Low-hanging fruit: put voting buttons on ALL review queues, either in their typical place to the left of the post being reviewed, or in line with the other review buttons. Make them an explicit option …
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Super User mug design

How about: There are 10 types of people in the world / and SU has something for both of them Or a shortened version (I think "them both" is more awkward than "both of them", but it saves three m …
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Why was my question put on hold as opinion-based when it wasn't?

I used this argument previously in a comment on the post that is the subject of this discussion. …
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Would this be an appropriate space to ask about the use limits of a software license?

Beyond what Mokubai says in the first portions of their answer, and disagreeing with the last portion: There are two buckets questions about licenses typically fall into: The "what does the license …
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Why was my question (1801790) closed?

I do not believe I voted to close your question yesterday, but I did see it (and commented on it). Ramhound found that the software documentation, available online from the publisher, gave instruction …
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Negative up-vote/down-vote ratio: is it effective mentoring, or too harsh?

This is a personal reflection. I recognize that a substantial part of SU's strength is that we are not all the same. But this is what I think when I see down votes in certain contexts: My first beef …
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Why was my post about Windows 3.1 icons found in Windows 7 placed on hold?

Because you asked "why". Why can only be answered by the people who made the decision being questioned. Why is not an appropriate question, most of the time, in a tech-support Q-and-A context. Whil …
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How to deal with out of date questions?

If the out-of-date question is specific enough and does includes information that dates itself and limits its application such as a specific OS or software version, then a new question and new answers …
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