Questions tagged [support]
You need help with the use of one or more of the site's features.
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have I added enough to get question re-opened?
I've added information to a question to see if that is enough to get it re-opened.
standby only at login screen?
Is it enough information or do I need to add more?
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StackExchange Link Error
Shenanigans aside on the meta board. :) I get this message pretty frequently when I click on the StackExchange logo at the top. If I click on the error to dismiss, I can then click on any of the links,...
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Linked StackExchange Accounts
I have an account on StackOverflow, ServerFault, and SuperUser all linked to the same OpenID. I originally did not think much of it until I noticed I started gaining reputation/badges individually on ...
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Merge guest account with StackExchange account
Can an admin please merge my guest account with my StackExchange account? I messed up migrating the guest account to a full account.
Guest Account: https://serverfault.com/users/89184/waleed-ahmad
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Tag tidy and synonym request
To tidy things up please
Rename debian6 to debian-6.0 then synonym it to debian-squeeze
Synonym debian-5.0 to debian-lenny
Synonym lenny to debian-lenny
Synonym etch to debian-etch
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Die, [multiple], die! *stabstabstab*
I've just noticed this tag float across (as the only tag on a question, which was what brought it to my attention). I've skimmed over the list of questions with the tag (66 at current count), and I ...
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Death to [newbie]!
Not to newbies themselves, of course...
As part of the continuing war on metatags, I've cleaned up all 36 or so questions that were tagged 'newbie', and would appreciate an SE employee blacklisting ...
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Tag synonym: datacentre -> datacenter
"Two countries separated by a common language", indeed...
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Tag synonym: compare->comparison
I've whipped up a little tag wiki for [comparison], and untagged the four questions that were [compare]. I'd "suggest a synonym" for [compare], but I don't have 5 votes in it (neither, for that ...
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Tag synonym/merge: virtual{host,hosts,-hosting,-hosts}
These tags all seem to refer to the same things, and people are using all of them interchangeably. Personally, I'd have picked the one that nobody seems to have gone for virtual-host but I guess I'm ...
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Death to the homework tag!
On the basis of the answer my previous question (and the SO blog post linked to therein), I've bulldozed all homework tags from questions on serverfault. Anyone with the appropriate mod bits want to ...
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List all questions with close votes
Is there a quick way to see all the questions that have close votes on them?
I see a few questions closed that I probably would have voted against closing, and a whole bunch where I wholeheartedly ...
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Can't Edit a Post
I don't have the ability to edit this post. First time I ran into this. I checked other questions and it seems I can edit them. Yes, I understand I can edit, but it won't save till a mod approves it.
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MS Access tag merge/alias
We've got:
msaccess - 31
ms-access - 4
microsoft-access - 2
I'd say that ms-access or microsoft-access would be the better tag, but the people have spoken, and msaccess is the most common option.
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Tag Merge Requests
We've got:
printing-printers-printerdriver
driver-drivers
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CDN a bit flaky? [closed]
I'm having the occasional problem loading pages on serverfault, and every time I get a "hung" page load, the status bar (or what passes for it in Chromium) will say "Waiting for cdn.sstatic.net". It'...
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Does retagging count as editing?
In terms of badges such as Copy Editor, does using the "retag" button on a question count as making an edit?
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Tag synonym request
Please synonym virtualisation to virtualization.
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Cisco ASA tags (again)
I'm posting a new one, since the other one got marked as completed.
Please merge the following tags into cisco-asa
cisco-pix
pix
asa5505
asa-5510
PIX and ASA are essentialy the same hardware, only ...
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Please block the amazon tag
We did some work to remove the plain amazon tag recently but yesterday 2 questions appeared with the tag. Can the amazon tag be blocked please?
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Delete tag - Home-Use
home-use <-- Kill with fire?
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merge or synonym lvm and lvm2 tags
Please can we merge or synonym the lvm and lvm2 tags? On Linux, LVM1 is now obsolete so all questions will be about LVM2 in any case, and LVM is the general concept across operating systems.
https://...
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How come my accepted percentage is so low?
I found out about the feature today and accepted about 10 answers giving to about 25 questions of mine. It seems however my accepted percentage is still only 8%?
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Do we really need a backup-exec-2010 tag when there's a perfectly good backupexec tag?
Is the rather recent spate of retagging of questions around Backup Exec with backup-exec-2010 by user KCotreau strictly necessary?
We've already got a perfectly servicable backupexec tag, and my ...
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Retag or Synonym SCVMMR2 -> SCVMM
The R2 release of SCVMM isn't different enough to warrant it's own tag.
Also, it's the 2008 R2 version, so the tag name isn't even accurate to start.
The scvmmr2 tag has more questions than scvmm, so ...
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Proposals regarding the Amazon and related tags
The amazon tag is being misused in a similar manner to the vmware tag in that questions tagged amazon are not about the company but the services that they provide.
There are several related Amazon ...
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Request to merge or synonym tags: [mongo] and [mongodb]
Please merge or synonym these tags:
mongo
mongodb
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late +100 reputation
Recently i was given 100 rep to my ServerFault account for being associated with rest of StackExchange network. But, my account has been associated since the beginning. How did these points really ...
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Please delete [tag:tweaking]
tweaking has been recently created - please burninate it before it picks up too many uses.
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Please delete [tag:fusion]
I noticed earlier that there was a fusion tag. The tag had been used 6 times and was used exclusively to reference VMware Fusion. I have changed all occurrences of fusion to vmware-fusion to make it ...
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How to flag users for mod attention (for editing vandals)
Over the last days, I had a few attempts of vandalizing questions/answers in my "approve edit" queue. This morning, it was the user "gnu" for three times and I wonder what to do about this. Just ...
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Abnormal flag weight
Today, when I looked at my profile, I noticed my Flag weight is a decimal. How is this possible?
Are you using some vintage Pentiums maybe? (Context) :-)
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What, in summary, are we supposed to do to clean up tags?
I know it's not a good question title...
I'd like to have a question and short answer here on meta.SF that explains what - if anything - people can or should do to clean up tags. I've seen blog ...
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What's with the new location in my profile?
I had put N VA, DC, Baltimore area for my profile location. I just noticed that it had changed to Farmville, VA. Which is like half a state away. In talking with other users, they have noticed ...
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tags with plus (+)
The tags help box (shown when editing tags) says tags can contain +, but when I type a tag like "lost+found", it tries to use two tags, "lost" and "found".
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Does the voters tab show everyone who's voted?
Or does it show only those who have cast, say, 5 votes? If it's everyone, it seems like 14 people voting so far this week is very very low.
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Negative reputation
Is this normal!?
Upon visiting the negative reputation profiles a positive reputation has been displayed.
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TFS - Team-Foundation-Server Synonyms
tfs should be a synonym for team-foundation-server (or Vice Versa).
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Multiple tags about 'blocking', pick one and make all others synonyms?
When you go to:
https://serverfault.com/tags
and type block, you will get 3 tags that are all pretty close to each other. Specifically:
block x 27
blocking x 45
blocked x 25
So, which one should ...
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Is the editing function broken?
I was cruising the front page, and ran into this answer. A user with 67 rep edited an answer. According to the privileges page and my own recollection, you shouldn't be able to do that until you ...
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Retag request: change [sharedfolders] to [shared-folders]
Retagging a question on SF, I noticed the tag sharedfolders, and it should have a hyphen in between, as they are two separate words, right?
Can we retag all sharedfolders to shared-folders?
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I no longer see any link or button to add comments - is it my browser, or the site?
I recently noticed that I do not see any way to add comments - on this site and also on wordpress.stackexchange.com. I can't tell if that's to do with my point status on these sites, or if my recent ...
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Is it possible to delete all Stack Exchage accounts?
I have asked several question on ServerFault. By mistake I used my personal details including email and company name. I changed the details after only one day. Content-copy sites like answerleaks ...
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Please burninate the [server] tag
On Server Fault, we have the server tag with 2283 questions as of this post. The general consensus is that it's a useless tag and it doesn't help to sort questions, but the sheer number of questions ...
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Merge postgres, postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3 into postgresql
Just noticed that there's a bunch of questions that are tagged postgres, or postgres-8.4, postgres-8.3; all need to by synonyms of postgresql
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Why was my question regarding PoE monitor closed?
I had a question regarding the availability of monitors that can be powered via 802.3at that was closed as off topic recently: https://serverfault.com/questions/256868/does-anyone-know-of-a-19-or-...
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Delete tag and blackhole - slowness
https://serverfault.com/questions/tagged/slowness
Please kill it with fire. Thank you!
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nameserver and nameservers tags
Can nameserver and nameservers tags be merged?
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bind and bind9 tags
Can bind and bind9 tags be merged?
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Tag merge and synonym or blackhole - Cisco-asa & ASA
The ASA tag has 109 Qs, the Cisco-ASA tag only has 79.
Please merge ASA into the more formal Cisco-ASA.