Questions tagged [discussion]
The question you're asking is designed to solicit opinions, influence site policy, or debate a particular topic, with the goal of reaching a community consensus.
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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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Consider blocklisting the [microsoft] tag?
As per Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again, microsoft as a tag is not wanted: we have more specific tags to use for microsoft products (microsoft-excel, windows-10, etc).
It has been ...
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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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How do we improve those banners you see when a question is closed?
For example, this question was closed (and rightly so) for asking for software recommendations.
Couple of problems:
The fact that the question was closed makes little sense, because why ask OP to ask ...
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Super User is trialling the new image hosting system
I was informed that we're testing the new image upload system. Practically, other than the URL changing, it appears to be identical.
If there's any issues with image uploads, feel free to post a new ...
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I am confused why I failed this audit
I received this audit in the First Answers queue:
https://superuser.com/review/first-answers/1243942
I am sure I downvoted the post, and it has in fact been deleted. So why did I fail it?
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Google Cloud will be Sponsoring Super User SE
Update on June 25th, 2024
The site sponsorship has been extended through September 30th.
We're excited to announce that Google Cloud will be sponsoring Super User Stack Exchange April 2nd through ...
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So many new spam bots thanks to AI - what can we do?
I keep seeing users like this, the quality of their posts is abysmal:
Can we get a captcha or something? Would that help? What else can be done? One of those things where you have to solve a little ...
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Is this harddisk question on-topic in SU?
Storage Drive Gone Bad - Ran a HEALTH check on my external drive with HD Tune Pro and REALLOCATED SECTOR COUNT is 4948. Need some advice
I feel like this question doesn't belong in SuperUser, but I ...
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What did I do wrong in my question about Windows Update?
I asked the question Windows Update gives 0x80070643 error on fresh Windows 10 install. I provided the steps that led to the issue and the troubleshooting steps I tried to solve it. When people ...
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“computer enthusiasts” is not a technical or administrative term and should be rewritten or dropped [closed]
This site claims to be “for computer enthusiasts and power users” as of 2024-02-22.
A power user can be roughly associated with a user performing system-related tasks, including tasks for many users ...
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I genuinely don't understand why this question was deleted when I asked for it to be re-opened?
Several years ago I tried to ask this question about how to make the best of the space in my PC for more case fans.
I thought I had put quite a lot of effort into researching for myself and then ...
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Should a question about a bug in software be answered or closed when the bug is fixed?
To give you a specific example, I have asked this question, but then realized it must be a bug in the software and created this bug report. The bug was quickly fixed, but the question itself remains ...
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“Please do not vote to close spam.” Why?
On a recent piece of spam, a user (Ramhound) stated:
“Please do not vote to close spam.“
Why? Should we just downvote and close as spam? What is the harm in voting to close as off topic? Wouldn’t ...
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Is is OK to ask about unconventional use of GitHub for the purposes of providing tutorials for system administration
My plan to is to use GitHub not for software sharing but rather to host markdown files on GitHub, those markdown files would be serving tutorial style purposes of documentation's on how to administer ...
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2023: a year in moderation
It’s that time of the year again! As we wave goodbye to last year and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year.
As most of you here might be ...
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User SS64 updating URLs, but old URLs still work
A user named SS64 is editing several links to the (really good resource) site ss64.com on various posts, changing the path from https://ss64.com/osx/... to https://ss64.com/mac/...
The old ../osx/... ...
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Should we enable a banner to warn about our policy on AI-generated content?
As you may have heard, Stack Exchange has announced a new feature: Sites can now request to enable a banner to warn about their policy on AI-generated content.
This feature could be useful for Super ...
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What should I do with a duplicate for which the flag aged away? Should the other question then become the duplicate?
I marked:
Disk usage at 100% during startup
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Modified 10 months ago
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Disk usage is always at 100%
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