Unanswered Questions
32 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Choosing a canonical question for "Is my processor 32-bit or 64-bit?"
Super User has several questions asking how to check whether they have a 32-bit or 64-bit Operating System, and how to check if their CPU is 64-bit capable.
The majority combine both questions into ...
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Let's do something about all the old link-only answers
We do a pretty good job removing or repairing link-only answers nowadays, but there are boatloads of old link-only answers sitting ignored or at a slight negative score, written largely by users that ...
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Are answers duplicate if they use different aliases of the same command?
This answer came up in the First Posts queue. It uses the Windows rd command to accomplish the task in the question. The accepted answer (from 2010), however, uses rmdir with the same parameters. rd ...
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Swap the duplicates (the general question is closed, the vista-specific one is open)
Following the answer of How to suggest to change "X is a duplicate of Y" to "Y is a duplicate of X"?, I'm posting my question here:
How do I full-screen my CMD? is marked as a ...
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How are there two *exact* duplicate questions? (Title, answers, author, date, comments, migration)
While viewing related questions on Meta Super User, I noticed two questions with the same title.
Initially I assumed this was a strange coincidence or a bug in the system. But then I realized the two ...
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The "Possible Duplicate" link/auto-text should NOT be part of the question itself
When a question gets closed as a possible duplicate, Community ♦ edits the post to insert the "duplicate link":
That's great! We should be directing users to the "original" question. The problem ...
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How to search for duplicates efficiently?
In my experience the search box in Close as duplicate dialog is almost useless.
For example we have a canonical malware removal question. Its score is 454 as I'm writing this. It has over a dozen ...
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How is this a duplicate?
How to restore data after accidentally starting DD on a hard drive but stopping it before it went too far?
Let's look at answers in the supposed duplicate:
Click here in case you suspect corruption ...
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How should I handle this review task / answer?
While reviewing I came across this post: https://superuser.com/a/1359300/926024 and I'm very unsure on what to do about it.
Technically, it is an answer to the question, even though it is basically ...
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HTTPS links aren't accepted when proposing a duplicate
I'm using HTTPS Everywhere plugin which redirects me to HTTPS versions of websites if they are available. It works on SuperUser too, so all SU pages are loaded through HTTPS.
I have just tried to ...
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Add "views" ordering to answer list again
There once was a views sort order for answers in a user's profile, but it apparently was removed. It is only available for questions.
While it might need to be made clear that it's not answer views, ...
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How do you know when the asker has read your answer?
Sometimes when I write a pretty long answer I never know whether he/she has read my answer or had just left and decided not to bother with it.
I don't however want to know everyone who has read it ...
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Duplicate questions of very old posts
I was about to post a question on Superuser, when I found that there was a duplicate of exactly the question I wanted to ask, only it was asked 3 and half years ago with no good answer.
Is it OK for ...
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Can we convert older (question body format) duplicate notices to the new, not editable duplicate format?
Duplicates used to be handled by the system putting some markup in the question body, like so:
> **Possible Duplicate:**
> [Title of the Duplicate Question](http://superuser.com/)
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Option to show possible duplicates in the review pane?
Anyone else thing that this would be a useful feature?
Currently, when I look at a question, I use the script that can be found in the accepted answer here to do that. It works pretty well as a rule.
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