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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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What should be done about questions whose answers go obsolete?
https://superuser.com/questions/75228/most-efficient-desktop-cpu-in-terms-of-gflops-watt is an example, but there are many more. Any answer given, while it may be accurate at the time, will not be in …
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How do members of the SuperUser community coordinate to close a question?
There is a chat room for this, but most of the time we just see the questions. Feel free to comment, or post here, or flag for moderator attention if you think that the post has closed unfairly.
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Suggestions for updating our FAQ
IMHO it looks good.
For software recommendations I propose the following rule:
If it is something can be answered with a simple Google search (something like "Presentation software", or "Program l …
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How to find the referers [sic] for a suddenly popular question?
This is not possible (even if you are a mod).
You might get lucky and see if some user gets an announcer/booster badge for your question, but that will get you a user (and therefore a link) and not i …
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are questions of the type which option is better A or B allowed?
I have been noticing some questions that appear (to me at least) to ask questions of the type in the title, and I was wondering, if absent any "hard" facts, such a question is allowed?
Examples is so …
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Posts that are just plagiarized
There are some posts that are literally just a copy and paste of some source (it could be from wikipedia, some other forum, whatever).
What should we do about that? (remove all, reword, leave alone, …
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Changing the FAQ to allow "Soft Questions"
I noticed a tag on the mathematics SE site that is "soft-question". It is used to identify questions that are more based in opinion than a "how can i solve x" but still on topic (a recent example: Why …
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Are printers and their hardware problems (NOT a driver issue), on topic for Super User?
I would say it is on topic.
This question, and its just about the mouse... I happen to think that computer hardware includes "accessories" that help a computer fulfill a function.
In addition to pr …
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Why should high rep users get privileges?
It seems to me (from reading this like this excellent post by random, and looking at the current high rep users for the quarter and the top editors for the quarter and seeing how little they overlap, …
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Why is there no badge for voting to close questions?
Out of curiosity, why is there no badge for voting to close questions? There seem to be badges (bronze at least) for using every other feature on the site pretty much, and I think it would be nice to …
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Convention for click on a button, then another button, etc
There is a standard way of representing a directory structure:
folder1/folder2/folder3/etc/file1
Is there a similar such convention we should use for indicating how to select an item in a series of …
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mac, osx, and osx-lion tags
It seems that these tags are used very often to refer to the same thing (see here). In fact (unless I read the search results wrong) there are 1,860 questions that use both mac and osx, and 212 that u …
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Change FAQ for explanation questions
Since the consensus on this question seems to be that at least under some circumstances "how does this work" questions are allowed, I propose that instead of burying this fact under what types of ques …
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What are the rules for diagnosis logfiles - and is such a question even allowed?
So long as it deals with computer software and hardware, it is on topic.
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Burn the stackexchange tag on the main site
Personally, I cannot think of a single question that would be on topic that uses that tag, and the questions currently tagged with this tag reflect that.
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