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These should be closed as "too localised", or in the cases where they only have just an image and want you to figure out what they're showing, "not a real question".

Other newer sites that take kindly to these type of questions are softer in enforcing the guidelines and quality control about what brought up the Stack Exchange network in the first place. They will happily accommodate them in order to help drive traffic to the detriment of overall signal.

Along the lines of identifying fontsidentifying fonts these questions only benefit and are geared for the single user asking.

The quality of Super User as a whole works best when the questions are atomic and can help many.

One-for-many examples include:

  • Editing a macro in a text editor
  • Making a printer use red and blue when it is out of black
  • Changing software configuration settings

One-for-one guessing questions are the like of:

  • What anti-virus is best
  • Software used to record a webcast
  • Where to buy RAM chips that fit a motherboard running in vegetable oil

These should be closed as "too localised", or in the cases where they only have just an image and want you to figure out what they're showing, "not a real question".

Other newer sites that take kindly to these type of questions are softer in enforcing the guidelines and quality control about what brought up the Stack Exchange network in the first place. They will happily accommodate them in order to help drive traffic to the detriment of overall signal.

Along the lines of identifying fonts these questions only benefit and are geared for the single user asking.

The quality of Super User as a whole works best when the questions are atomic and can help many.

One-for-many examples include:

  • Editing a macro in a text editor
  • Making a printer use red and blue when it is out of black
  • Changing software configuration settings

One-for-one guessing questions are the like of:

  • What anti-virus is best
  • Software used to record a webcast
  • Where to buy RAM chips that fit a motherboard running in vegetable oil

These should be closed as "too localised", or in the cases where they only have just an image and want you to figure out what they're showing, "not a real question".

Other newer sites that take kindly to these type of questions are softer in enforcing the guidelines and quality control about what brought up the Stack Exchange network in the first place. They will happily accommodate them in order to help drive traffic to the detriment of overall signal.

Along the lines of identifying fonts these questions only benefit and are geared for the single user asking.

The quality of Super User as a whole works best when the questions are atomic and can help many.

One-for-many examples include:

  • Editing a macro in a text editor
  • Making a printer use red and blue when it is out of black
  • Changing software configuration settings

One-for-one guessing questions are the like of:

  • What anti-virus is best
  • Software used to record a webcast
  • Where to buy RAM chips that fit a motherboard running in vegetable oil
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These should be closed as "too localised", or in the cases where they only have just an image and want you to figure out what they're showing, "not a real question".

Other newer sites that take kindly to these type of questions are softer in enforcing the guidelines and quality control about what brought up the Stack Exchange network in the first place. They will happily accommodate them in order to help drive traffic to the detriment of overall signal.

Along the lines of identifying fonts these questions only benefit and are geared for the single user asking.

The quality of Super User as a whole works best when the questions are atomic and can help many.

One-for-many examples include:

  • Editing a macro in a text editor
  • Making a printer use red and blue when it is out of black
  • Changing software configuration settings

One-for-one guessing questions are the like of:

  • What anti-virus is best
  • Software used to record a webcast
  • Where to buy RAM chips that fit a motherboard running in vegetable oil