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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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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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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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Is Tumbleweed badge an achievement or otherwise?
I often ask niche or difficult questions, and I often get tumbleweed badges.
Part of the formula is low views, so I see them mostly as a useful notification that very few people are looking at my ...
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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?
From my experience on StackOverflow, and a bit on Bicycle Stack Exchange & Cryptography Stack Exchange, responses are unexpectedly fast and helpful. However, in spite of my best efforts with SU , ...
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Questions about removing enrollment from Chromebooks
After a lot of thinking - My opinion is that its actually going to be a lot simpler to have a canonical answer posted with a hypothetical or real case (I'm sure we can find one!) of someone needing to ...
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I want to ask a too broad question and answer it with a tutorial I wrote myself. What will the be the community's reaction?
We like canonical and complete answers and I personally don't see any reason for it to be classed as off topic as such.
Typically a question and answer should be short and to the point, but a ...
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Is this question acceptable?
Primarily opinion based in my opinion, even as a CW. Its polling for reasons, which can range from "I want to run old games" to "I have old hardware that won't run on anything else" to its a running ...
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Why do we have the google-calendar tag if we can't ask questions about it here?
Some PC based applications such as the built-in calendar, mail and other applications can connect to web-apps in order to show your online calendars in a system native, and therefore more intuitive, ...
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Why does the community have such vague rules that any administrator can adjust almost any question to fit them?
Android tablets fall under the "not about... electronic devices, media players, cell phones or smart phones" clause in our help center. The operating system is essentially locked down and ...
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Why am I getting a question ban?
You have asked a total of 10 questions on Super User, 8 of which have been closed and/or deleted.
Your deleted questions, from newest to oldest:
Can you see me? [closed]
Does SE have a webmaster? [...
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Undelete an answer on a closed post that was deleted before it was closed
I'm fairly confident that the ability to delete and undelete answers is independent of the question's closure status, so the strategy you describe could work. But doing this knowingly (i.e. with ...
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How do you deal with edits that strip personal details of the author from a question, ultimately graveyarding the question?
Since I wrote the original question very badly, contextually and structurally, of course, everybody assumed I am not very sophisticated with technology or put zero to no effort into researching the ...
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Same question, different program?
If it's a different program then it's a different (new) question.
Some of the features of programs might be similar, but that doesn't mean that the solution for one program applies to another.
It ...
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Too many edits issue. Post-ban support
You keep hitting on the automatic limits we can't do anything about. No we cannot remove these limits and they are automatic and there's no way to undo them. The official line here is you'll just have ...
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Are new questions regarding Windows XP on-topic?
Are new questions regarding Windows XP on-topic?
Short answer: Yes they are on-topic.
We allow all sorts of questions about old (outdated) operating systems.
We may not be able to answer them ...
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Why am I getting a question ban?
I have only asked 2 or 3 questions
You have asked 10 questions.
Is my status on other SE sites causing me to have a premature question ban here?
No. Your status on other SE sites makes no ...
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Undelete an answer on a closed post that was deleted before it was closed
There's another option. If someone is going to put in the effort to create a good answer, why associate it with a bad question? Create a new, high quality question that doesn't suffer from the ...
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Does this constitute a high quality question? From review audit
At 1000 views per day it's the type Q&A thread that although simplistic gets lots of search engine hits.
In general this type of question is poorly received by the community. With a few exceptions,...
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Placing a user's comment in their own post
Are we able to edit his post and paste his extra information there?
Sure, that is a good thing to do as comments are not meant to be permanent in the same way that questions or answers are.
However, ...
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Why permission of "ASK QUESTION" went away again?
Your questions on Super User currently are a net zero in votes with a wild variety in quality and formatting issues. This leans toward your account being blocked from asking new questions for now.
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Question limit?
This is covered in the help pages
Fact is there's no manual way for a moderator to undo a question ban.
You have 12 deleted questions (and from a quick look through, I can't really see anything that ...
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Who can technically view saved drafts for questions and answers
Only the OP. I can't view those drafts - and while devs might be able to, in theory, I'm doubtful it's a function that would be used.
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Wrongly Closing/on Hold'ing questions?
If a question that can be seen by some as a somewhat broad question (and others not that broad)
When a question like this exists, then the author should improve the question, so it isn't broad. This ...
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Is a question about chroma subsampling in a TV on topic?
As the problem is largely irrelevant to computer hardware or software it is off topic on Super User.
The setting is only on the TV, is independent of the signal from a computer and is not ...
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How can a question about a deleted question be a hot meta question?
Why is it on Hot Meta posts?
The question is a discussion question not marked status-completed, scoring
at least 3 and posted within the past two weeks.
The algorithm for deciding Hot Meta Posts is ...
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Migrating high-quality, off-topic questions to another site in the Stack Exchange network
From the flag queue that mods see I failed to notice that it was a question I had closed previously. By your admission we are jealous of our communities and don't typically migrate unless it has not ...
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Why does the community have such vague rules that any administrator can adjust almost any question to fit them?
While Mokubai has very clearly answered your question here, there was an inherent flaw in your original question and the details, or lack of details, you provided…
You need to provide a bare minimum ...
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Only top scored, non community-wiki answers of a minimum length are eligible