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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How do I ask a question that may require recommending software?
I have a problem that I need solved, and it may require the recommendation of software. How do I ask these type of questions so that they aren't closed?
Note: This is for reference to point users ...
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Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again
We don't like company-only tags, and there's been various crusades in the past to purge them:
Can we get rid of the company tags?
Company tag necromancy: The zombie apocalypse!
What should the [...
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How do I recommend software in my answers?
I have a piece of software that I would like to recommend as a solution to problems. I'm trying to avoid answering with "link only" answers, and so I need help on how I can answer valid ...
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Since when are software recommendations off-topic?
I want to take discussion away from Daniel's previous post.
Here's my point: I've always been under the impression that software-recommendations were absolutely fine on Super User.* Now, obviously, ...
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Please vote on proposed changes to our policy on tablet computers
We recently asked how you feel about questions regarding Windows 8 on ARM. After looking through the answers and comments there, and some lengthy discussion amongst the moderators, we've come up with ...
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Is it okay to inform users to stop promoting Apple.SE when a question is fine to stay here?
Now that we see a quite large amount of OS X Lion questions here on Super User, I've seen people telling the OP to go to ask on Ask Different.
Of course, the folks at Ask Different want their site ...
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Is discussion of techniques for removing DRM permitted?
I just asked a question about how to remove DRM from Kindle books that I had purchased and it was promptly closed by the moderator studiohack with the following comment:
We don't encourage this ...
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Are "Hackintosh" questions allowed?
I've seen questions about pirating software down voted and closed. I'm wondering if Hackintosh questions are also disallowed? If so, why?
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Recommendations for the BEST?
Going through @Gareth's list of candidates for closing, I find several topics that are asking about the best X, with X being software.
We're usually pretty liberal with product recommendations if it'...
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Migrating questions to the Ubuntu or Linux/Unix Stack Exchange sites
I just realised that there are Stack Exchange sites for Ubuntu and Linux/Unix.
Why aren't all the Linux/Unix/Debian etc questions on Super User getting migrated there?
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Should the original intent of a question be broadened to make the answers more canonical?
A question about Markdown editors with live preview is specific to Mac OS X, but several other answers, including mine, discuss applications that run on other operating systems.
Is it appropriate to ...
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When should questions be moved to AskDifferent/AskUbuntu/...?
I read this question, which helped, but where is the line?
Just because a question is about an Apple product, doesn't mean it is off-topic (not at all actually) just because another (more specific) ...
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How should my flagging change when I gain the ability to vote to close?
My rep is going to reach 3,000 soon (2,987 at the time of this post), so I should be able to vote to close soon. How should my flagging habits change when I gain this ability? What should I do when ...
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We have bad question closing habits
Not all of us and not all the time, of course, and I'm sometimes guilty of this too. I don't want to point the finger at anyone - just discuss what I think is a problem and how we can improve. The ...
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Rat's nest of tags
Raystafarian recently posted a number of tag cleanup requests:
Be done with [gtd]
What to do with [to-do]
It's time we managed [time-management]
and a tag synonym request: Tag Synonym request: [tag:...
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