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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-...
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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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Do we have any experts on "applications"?
This is clearly a meta tag – no reason to have it really. This is Super User, a site for questions about computer hardware and software. Applications are software, so the tag really makes no ...
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Would telling posters “Make Google your friend…” be a good idea?
I’m very new here, but I’ve been reading a lot of the questions and
wondered if a reasonable answer would be:
Nope. That is not a answer. Nothing of what you are saying would ever be a reasonable ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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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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 ...
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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.
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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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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Is Tumbleweed badge an achievement or otherwise?
Technically you can get the Tumbleweed badge for a number of reasons, not all of which are contingent upon you asking bad questions:
Asking them at the wrong time, so they get pushed off the front-...
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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. ...
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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 ...
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