56 votes

Should we ban ChatGPT on Super User?

Yes While it may be fine in theory to allow any answer as long as it is correct, what we're seeing across the network is that the answers may appear good on the surface but contain subtle (or not-so-...
forest's user avatar
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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 ...
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39 votes

Can we be nicer to folks whose English isn't that great?

If these sorts of comments are coming from regulars, then they will probably read this meta question, so that's good enough. Considering that, if you (the one reading this answer) know you are a ...
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Revisit the Hackintosh policy

I say that there should be no "ban" on Hackintosh questions solely based on legal grounds, and in fact, there shouldn't be a ban on them at all. BUT... Due to the very nature of how a Hackintosh ...
allquixotic's user avatar
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2017 Moderator Election Q&A - Questionnaire

I'm DavidPostill and here are my answers. A pretty important part of moderation is engaging the community. How have you engaged the community so far, and what do you intend to do as a moderator ...
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37 votes

2017 Community Moderator Election Results

First, farewell to Oliver Salzburg. Thank you for all your service. All the current moderators deserve congratulations as well -- the fact that we didn't need an election for three years shows your ...
Ben N's user avatar
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36 votes
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What is this traffsecurity.xyz site?

Its an exact duplicate of our site and its something that you should report so that action can be taken. As per the official meta.se post on the topic The site is a proxy. Whatever the purpose of ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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36 votes
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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 ...
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35 votes

Why and how/by whom my profile name was changed?

The only name history I can see for your account is on the 15th of February. It looks like you changed your name and then 4 minutes later reset it. The events below are in reverse chronological order ...
Mokubai's user avatar
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34 votes
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Why has my post on SuperUser been copied to onooks.com?

What is a "scraper" and why is that bad? Historically, SCRAPER here on Stack Exchange meant "Stack Content Republishers Attributing Poorly and/or Excelling at Ranking." More generally, a ...
DavidPostill's user avatar
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33 votes
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Two long answers disagreeing with each other - how to canonicalize?

Optimally, voting is how the correct answer is recognized. In practice, though, sometimes people vote up answers that are long just because they look thorough. I notice that, in this case, neither ...
Ben N's user avatar
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33 votes

Ending my tenure as a superuser moderator

I totally get why you’re doing this. Thank you Nathan for your work and help here at SU. I’ll never forget how much time and effort we spent on different matters- the jokes, the camaraderie, the ...
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32 votes
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Using superuser.com to warn my own users

I'd suggest a few things. Firstly, remember the question and answer format and don't make it like an ad. So, ask a question as a confused, lost user would, and answer it likewise Secondly, make it ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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31 votes
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What to do about such activity?

Vote to close the posts. Soon enough the low-quality filter will catch up and prevent the user from posting.
Sathyajith Bhat's user avatar
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30 votes

User tries to do something forbidden by license. Is explaining why it's illegal an answer?

As pointed out in a comment to this answer, a software license is a contract, as opposed to a law. The contract is, or isn't, enforceable, depending on the law(s) that apply where the user who asked ...
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Old questions - system discourages answering them?

I skimmed through your answering history, and I noticed that many of your answers that still have zero votes are in response to questions that are either already answered or posted by very-low-rep ...
Ben N's user avatar
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30 votes
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Which proper action should be taken to handle this suspicious post?

I was the moderator who handled that flag. It's not spam, and that profanity is part of the extension name. There was also a rude/abusive flag on the post and no spam link when I saw it. Should ...
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28 votes

Is this acceptable by the CoC?

As a sentiment, 'RTFM' isn't acceptable in a comment Back in the days of yore on a certain popular website 'RTFA' was somewhat playfully assumed to stand for "Read The Fine Article"†. Even if we ...
bertieb's user avatar
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27 votes
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Re-assign accepted answer years later?

Yup. Best answers change sometimes. Considering its not version specific, I'd add a note on the question and switch.
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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26 votes
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Hats this year?

Well, hats are opt out, and we didn't opt out. There'll be hats this hatmas.
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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26 votes
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To edit or not within 5 minutes if sensitive material

If the question or answer contains a serious leak of Personal Information you can mod flag and ask for a redaction of the information. Redaction will remove it from the revision history. If you have ...
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26 votes

Ending my tenure as a superuser moderator

We apparently found this home away from home one single day apart some 10 years ago. Those were heady days of answering, chatting and working to make the site a better place for users old and new. It ...
Mokubai's user avatar
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Is Super User always this slow to respond or am I doing it wrong? Can I do anything to fix it?

Your questions are relatively simple in the context of what the core content is but difficult to read and understand at first glance. I personally think the mixed formatting of your questions — with ...
Giacomo1968's user avatar
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26 votes

AWS will soon be sponsoring Super User

Couple of points here - as a long time user of the site and a moderator. One of the 'issues' us smaller sites have is that sometimes there's a 'question' of the value we bring to the broader network. ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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26 votes
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Should we enable a banner to warn about our policy on AI-generated content?

Yes. It can't hurt. It costs us nothing. People will either read it & pay attention or not, but if only 1% read it & then don't post the AI answer they were about to, then the banner has been ...
Tetsujin's user avatar
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25 votes
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Are questions related to download YouTube content allowed?

Questions about local tools for downloading from YouTube should be, prima facie, on topic: questions should be judged on technical merits Back in 2011, the question arose with regards to removing DRM. ...
bertieb's user avatar
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Should we ban ChatGPT on Super User?

Yes. ChatGPT is only Google on steroids, parroting stuff with no understanding or experience. It will copy bugs, and its generated code, while it may work for the test values, may fail for others, or ...
harrymc's user avatar
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24 votes

New Super User theme coming soon

There's a related post on MSE here, and I encourage people to weight in there - I'm probably a lot more annoyed when I wrote it, a little later, and I don't see the point repeating it here. As a ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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Why did my edit that fixed several spelling errors get rejected as superfluous?

I see that you tried again, and your suggestion was approved this time.  But, please, when you see a non-inlined image like [enter image description here][1] don’t change it to![image description](...
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Are we [licensed] for all this?

It really comes down to granularity. license-key and product-key are really the same thing, but software-activation is a process and should stay separate. volume-license could be grouped into ...
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