Unanswered Questions
382 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Why is this question about a web service not moved to Web Apps SE?
Where to find Google Cloud security notification
Google Cloud is clearly a web service/application. This is a good question that quickly got 2 answers. I don't see anything that would get it rejected ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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“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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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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Against the "restrictions" tag
So, we have a restrictions tag. I believe it is much too vague and general.
Now, true, it has 95 associated questions, but they should either just lose the tag or get more specific tags, existing or ...
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Let's better define a "Hardware recommendation"
While performing reviews, I was asked to review a question that basically asked "Will DDR3 RAM work with motherboard XYZ?".
For the purposes of Super User, is this considered a hardware ...
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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 ...