Questions tagged [discussion]
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Why is this question about a web service not moved to Web Apps SE?
Where to find Google Cloud security notification
Google Cloud is clearly a web service/application. This is a good question that quickly got 2 answers. I don't see anything that would get it rejected ...
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Is software-rec an unwanted tag, yes or no?
Referring to Could we finally get rid of [software-rec]? I get overall impression we want to get rid of the software-rec tag.
At the same time someone is actively editing existing questions all over ...
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Pondering mod status tags
We've been using the status tags - things like status-review were used for 'internal' SU moderation tasks. At some point, review tags on per site meta get fed into tickets internally.
I feel like a ...
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Let's deal with the [if] tag, else it'll become a problem
The if tag exists, most notably on questions about the IF functionality in Microsoft Excel, but it has been used for all sorts of conditional and branching questions.
Is it worth keeping separate? ...
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Has it ever been considered to raise the 30K character limit for answers?
Most questions can be comprehensively answered within the confines of 30K characters, however there are the occasional comprehensive answers that could benefit from additional comprehensive info that ...
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Failed audit test: "how to run the program in safe mode windows 10?" [closed]
I just saw the question with the mentioned title, the question was "How to run the program in Windows 10 safe mode? I'd like to be able to run every program in safe mode,for example spotplayer ...
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Question which should have the answer "it is impossible"
I asked that question: https://superuser.com/questions/1842310/collaborate-on-a-ms-word-document-while-prohibiting-word-online
It has been closed.
But it seems, by reading all the comments, that the ...
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What suggestions does the community have toward helping reopen this question?
Here is the closed question:
I would like to have feed that is not automated/robotic from the website that I can use to help edit this question so it can get reopened.
Because this is the main ...
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Do we have a FAQ for why backups are desirable?
Every day (in the year 2024), about 385,000 people are born. At some point in their future, they will need to know that they need to make backups of their data.
Many of them may turn to Super User ...
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Requesting clarity on edits that update redirecting URLs
I frequently edit posts that include redirecting microsoft.com URLs. My reasoning is generally that a redirecting link today may be a broken link tomorrow, so as long as the redirect has preserved the ...
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User vandalized own question - roll back?
This question:
Content removed. I do not consent to "AI" scraping
Screenshot at the time I wrote this:
On other SE sites as well:
Rolling this back will return in a tug of war.
What to do?
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Strange behaviour of audit
In first questions review, I've downvoted the following question and I got:
What's wrong to downvote such a question?
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Is this question about automation appropriate for SuperUser?
I'm working on a data cleaning automation task.
Every month we receive an e-mail from a specific client with two folders with PDF files attached.
My goal is to find a way to download these folders, ...
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Can we get a description for the [ole] tag?
Could we ask for the description of the ole tag or its removal?
I used the tag in the sense of Object Linking and Embedding in How to compare TIFF files with tags 37680 (0x9330)?, but see http://...
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Edit that updates obsolete command-line parameters gets rejected?
Yesterday I came across this Chocolatey answer, but, surprisingly, the proposed command-line didn’t work. I then noticed several comments mentioning that the mentioned command-line parameter was ...
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