Unanswered Questions
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What if a community wiki grows into a monster?
Disclosure: I am knowledgeable about data recovery, I do data recovery for a living, I am part of a group of 20 or so data recovery professionals with who I share tips, knowledge etc..
Please keep in ...
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My question was closed as "opinion-based" despite not being opinion-based
My question Why do SSDs tend to fail much more suddenly than HDDs? was closed by a mod as "opinion-based", despite being in no way opinion-based. It asks for factual reasons why SSDs tend ...
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Let's put [preview] in the rear-view
The tag preview has an ambiguity problem. It has no tag wiki and is often misapplied in place of better, more specific tags.
For example, about half of the questions tagged with it are about Preview, ...
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Skip the [skipping] tag?
skipping has no wiki definition and is used in various ways:
failing to process fragments of audio or video
intentionally ignoring items when processing a list like a playlist
searching for the ...
MokubaiMod
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Meat tag needs killing: [Devices]
devices does not seem to help a question. Although already proposed last year, it still is running rampant with over 290 questions!
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Disable virtual menus
Please help clean up the tags:
disable now removed
virtual now removed
menus now removed
I've already been working on these for some time.
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Time to downgrade [upgrade]
I propose we clean up upgrade. It is a meta tag that is bloated and all over the place content-wise. There are questions about upgrading operating systems, RAM, software, etc. Furthermore, some are ...
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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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Inconsistent tags: .bash-profile (with dot) vs bashrc (no dot)
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There is the tag .bash-profile, note the leading dot. Currently it has no synonyms, so the "canonical" tag is naturally with the dot. And there is also bashrc with .bashrc as its ...
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Suggestion to rename Tag [office365] to [microsoft-office-365]
Since the current notation for MS Office tags is microsoft-office-VERSION e.g. microsoft-office-2019, I would suggest to apply that notation to MS Office 365 as well.
Currently the tag is named ...
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Vampyric tags: [design] won't die
design didn't die like we wanted it to.
The answer to life, the universe, and everything may be among the questions tagged with it, but these still cover such a broad swath of computery experience ...
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Logistics for Cleanup Weekend 2
We are having another cleanup weekend.
This time we will focus on:
fixing the rest of the broken images (most of this work has been completed)
cleaning up some more tags
The cleanup will last for ...
DavidPostillMod
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Reward not solved question
I had a question, Connect two subnets on Linux, which is not solved yet. But user TomS has done many constructive attempts to solve it. Which does give me a direction where to search further. I would ...
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Am I using the "obsolete" flag wrong?
I have noticed that often, when I flag a comment as obsolete, a moderator declines it, so I am wondering if I am using it wrong.
I usually flag a comment as obsolete when, for example, another ...
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Collect the multitude of "SMART - failure predicted" questions?
We have half a dozen questions asking about a boot-time SMART warning:
On booting my laptop warns me about failure of hard disk is imminent...can it be repaired or to be replaced..?
Is there a script ...
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