12 votes
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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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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?

I'm half certain at least some of these is some poor person in a sweatshop rather than something more sophisticated. It would be nice to have better tools - and we've requested for it In this case I ...
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8 votes

A weird Web 1.0 nazi site wants help. How to handle?

While we don't want that sort of content here - but we don't police what people do off this site, and unless there's a clear interaction or reproduction of that content on the site, well its not our ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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8 votes

I have a question ban and I have no idea how to fix it

I don’t know why you have a ban, but your vandalism of your own questions doesn’t help. You went to all your questions (spanning from 2017 to 2023) and edited them to complain about your ban? How do ...
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Reopen request 1803702

Your question has been reviewed for reopening several times already. https://superuser.com/review/reopen/1210212 https://superuser.com/review/reopen/1210213 https://superuser.com/review/reopen/...
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Why was my “written by AI” flag declined?

These are likely written by ChatGPT Smoking gun: scratch forums ChatGPT wrote: It sounds like the issue you're experiencing with Scratch reloading every time your Chromebook is turned off or ...
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5 votes
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I flagged an answer as spam, where the user profile contained spam. Why was my flag declined?

DavidPostill nuked the spambot.
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What devices can I ask questions about on superuser?

"electronic devices" in the help centre refers to things like Smart TVs, fridges, toasters, IoT devices all of which (may) contain computer chips and software. These are all excluded from ...
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5 votes
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Can I find out why this question was deleted?

https://superuser.com/q/1686639/116475 was deleted by Stack Exchange's automated question deletion script (aka, Roomba) as it has a score of 0, low views, no answers, and fewer than 2 comments. ...
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Being a scriptkiddy is OK but piracy is not?

Ah, See, I am a moderator of the oldschool. I assume good intent I've literally have had to do very similar text processing to recover/reprocess a set of rules for managing RSS feeds, or once when ...
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Account locked after I deleted questions that attacked griefer?

Well - generally you don't want to really delete posts unless needed. Several of my questions attracted griefer who bombarded the comments with knit picks Well - moderators can see deleted posts. ...
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5 votes

How do I get my question reopened?

Editing isn't enough - the question still lacks clarity on what needs to be done. So you have a template, sure but what's the data source? What do you want to fill up the files with? How do you want ...
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3 votes

Please, delete my question regarding svchost.exe

In most cases we'd be disinclined to delete a question - and if memory serves, you can't delete your own question if there's an upvoted answer. A couple of observations. if a large part of an answer ...
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3 votes

Delete Accepted answer, where the consensus is that the answer is wrong

Well in general - the reasoning is that it could be useful for others (and as a wrong answer it isn't), and OP spent the effort creating an answer. Considering the circumstances, (and that I was in a ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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3 votes

Viewing change history to questions on superuser.com

You can look at the revision history by clicking the "edited Apr 20, 2018 at 19:12" link: which goes to the revision history. Most of the recent history is simply it being bumped by ...
Mokubai's user avatar
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2 votes
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Have answers been removed from this question?

There was only one other answer, and it was deleted by the community from the review queue. There is/was no third answer. Perhaps you are thinking of a comment. There is indeed a comment posted by the ...
Mokubai's user avatar
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2 votes

I was serial downvoted, please reverse them

From what I can tell, it was reversed on its own. Failing which, moderators can't check up on individual votes - had it not been reversed, we'd have escalated it to the community team to handle.
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2 votes

Rename microsoft-one-outlook to outlook-for-windows

For now I've removed microsoft-one-outlook from the three questions it was used on. "One Outlook" appears to be a company project or initiative rather than an actual product or software tool....
Mokubai's user avatar
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1 vote
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Where should I ask questions about setting up phone systems on Stack Exchange?

I can't do anything about the downvotes but I've messed around with the theory behind this and have a few observations. I've done an edit that should have it in better shape, but I think this is one ...
Journeyman Geek's user avatar
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1 vote

superuser inbox not posting new messages

This is when you get notifications about comments: when it's your own question/answer if you're subscribed to question/answer. Subscribing to question also notifies you about edits, answers and when ...
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How to dispute a rejected edit?

Get the attention of a moderator exactly like that: posting the issue on meta.—Or ask a Super User moderator in chat.
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