Indicates that a submitted issue is actually due to the existing design of the system and is not considered erroneous behaviour.
8
votes
3answers
137 views
Is this “Chat with an expert” a new items on SE sites?
I have noticed just today that there is a banner that will pop up now and again when I am on SU.
.
Is this something new?
0
votes
3answers
115 views
Why aren’t my flags handled?
The last handled flag on my profile is from 21 February. None of the newer flags have been handled yet. Where are all the moderators?
0
votes
1answer
79 views
Won't allow me to flag
I found an odd problem. I was in newest questions and I saw this:
Instantly I was going to flag one as duplicate. My problem came when attempting this. The second question wouldn't show up. Any ...
18
votes
1answer
170 views
Could we have a less obvious review audit user?
I've noticed a good chunk of my edit approval review audits are by the same user (who I will not name ;p), with a .. suspicious amount of rep (999/1024). I realize that review audits are meant to ...
1
vote
1answer
24 views
Display Bug: Showing More Comments Causes Comments to Get Cut Off
The <div class="comments"> element surrounds a table element where comments are displayed. .comments declares width:660px;. The table is styled with .comments > table{width:100%;}.
When ...
1
vote
1answer
27 views
Sorting is showing lower scored answer above higher one, neither accepted
It was my understanding that answers to questions on all SE sites are sorted by descending net votes, with the accepted answer (if there is one) pinned to the top.
However, the answers to this ...
1
vote
1answer
30 views
Not all questions tagged with my favorite tags are highlighted
As you can see in the screenshot below, although I have linux as a favorite tag, not all questions tagged with it are highlighted. This occurs both when looking through the questions tagged as linux ...
0
votes
1answer
34 views
Suggested edit to mark a signpost is cancelled out when post is deleted
Why is it possible to delete an answer when an edit is pending?
I had a question that included a HORRIBLE answer.
It was someone trying to get me to install malware but I had just edited it to ...
5
votes
1answer
49 views
How do I cast my 31st vote?
I just cast 30 votes, all on answers. I then tried to vote on some questions, and was denied, with the message “Daily vote limit reached”. I thought I was allowed an additional 10 votes on questions ...
0
votes
1answer
34 views
Closing Votes count bug
So here I am, minding my own business and checking out the Vote to Close statistics, when I notice a weird number... 25. I voted only 24 times in this UTC day. Weird bug? Or am I just that super ...
1
vote
1answer
44 views
Deletion of first line in questions
I've noticed that when I make the first line of my post
Hi Superuser,
or
Hello Superuser,
It auto-deletes it.
If it is anything else (maybe a few more variants of this exist), it will ...
-5
votes
2answers
135 views
Rep-mining / Using the site as a blog
I’ve noticed recently that numerous users (including high-rep users and even moderators) have been posting generic, hypothetical questions, followed immediately by an answer and accepting it.
I don’t ...
2
votes
1answer
43 views
Delay in notifications
For the second time, i saw what i think to be a bug in superuser(i don't know if it doesn't happens in other SE sites).
I can see the title of the page where i am with a "(n)"(by n, i mean a number). ...
2
votes
1answer
40 views
List of (un)deletion votes is incomplete
I went through my (un)deletion votes on my profile page today and discovered that at least 5 are missing.
In the deletion tab, only 5 votes appear:
That can't be true. I don't recall every ...
0
votes
1answer
45 views
Listed close reason is wrong in /tools?
Not really sure what is going here, but here is a picture:
The stated reason at the bottom is that it is too localized, but the only close vote is for off topic.
What is going on?
0
votes
1answer
59 views
Malformatted confirmation link
I tried to subscribe to a tag on SU, I've got the confirmation mail but the link renders with )### appended to it in Plain-Text Mode, which will result in a 404 not found.
###[Confirm ...
5
votes
1answer
72 views
Why does SU allow me to change my display name without confirmation and limits further changes?
Recently, I was editing my profile, typing something, and an advertisement frame popped up, for lack of better name, since y'all are sparing on the ads. The 'frame' somehow caused my cursor focus to ...
3
votes
1answer
61 views
Reputation summary badge is not calculated correctly
The "badge" number appearing next to the "reputation" tab title on a user's profile is not calculated correctly. It ignores the removed category of reputation gains and losses.
From May 6, 25 ...
0
votes
1answer
87 views
How do I have 199 reputation on Meta if I haven't asked questions on here before?
I haven't asked a question on here before, but yet my meta reputation is 199. How?
1
vote
1answer
70 views
“Research Assistant” tag with problem and can't be reached
I'm reviewing and suggesting tag wiki edits on the last weeks and was suspecting that my tag wiki editions to this badge wasn't change. Today I suggested two tag editions and tested what happend with ...
0
votes
1answer
46 views
Organizer of what?
I gave this question an overhaul in grammar and got both the Editor and the Organizer badges. I'm totally cool with this myself, I think I deserved the two badges, but I didn't do anything with the ...
-2
votes
1answer
93 views
Why are my questions judged as low quality?
When I write questions on Super User, I often find that I am rejected when I click submit after typing a paragraph; including my previous research on the subject, and so on.
It says that my question ...
2
votes
1answer
38 views
Comment @replies cannot see the names after posting?
I do not understand this and am well aware of this post but it does not address my issues. On stackoverflow I can just write
@iznogood love your post!
and I will see the comment as:
@iznogood love ...
1
vote
2answers
24 views
Tag wiki edit awarded double rep
So I proposed an edit to a tag wiki (this one not that it really matters) and I got 2 +2s when the edit was accepted.
Pretty sure this is a bug.
2
votes
1answer
78 views
Reputation related badges exist and are attainable on MSU
Quoting any child meta site's /reputation:
Reputation on this per-site meta is derived entirely from the main site; nothing to show.
Which is consistent with what's shown as part of the user ...
1
vote
1answer
51 views
Missing Upvotes
I went through several of KCotreau's answers yesterday upvoting, showing my appreciation using the upvotes I had left near the end of the day.
This morning, I found none of my votes for him from ...
0
votes
1answer
94 views
LaTeX snippets from Math.SE look like gibberish in the Stack Exchange hot questions list
This is what it looks like on Math.SE:
This is what it looks like in the SE hot topics list:
3
votes
1answer
63 views
Front page isn't always chronological
I just edited this post and reloaded the front page. It had already updated the topic (the one with 10 up votes) to include my modification (55s ago Daniel Beck), but its position was out of the ...
2
votes
1answer
41 views
Cannot edit a question. URL results in “Page Not Found”
For some reason, there is no edit or retag link underneath this question: How to debug a local network from a PC that is infecting it
Similarly, when trying to access the edit function directly via ...
4
votes
1answer
91 views
can't post answer on community blocked question, have enough points
This is more of a bug report:
No option to hibernate/shutdown in GNOME 3?
text under the message says:
protected by Community♦ Oct 22 at 14:12
This question is protected to prevent ...
5
votes
1answer
59 views
Post editors are not suggested recipients for @-addressing
There is no username popup suggesting completion when typing an editor's user name prefix.
Steps to reproduce:
Find a post by AUser that was edited by UserB
Write a comment addressing @UserB
...
7
votes
1answer
48 views
Changing the timescale on the review page
As a suggestion, while on many other parts of the site it makes sense that the month is defined by the calendar month, for reviewing, this is unhelpful.
When looking at the late answers this month, ...
3
votes
1answer
34 views
Page Not Found when clicking on non-existant tag in chat room
In the Ask a Super User Moderator chat room, when someone clicks on tag:moderator*, a page not found error is reached.
2
votes
1answer
120 views
Re-tag option for Community Wiki questions is missing
Shouldn't there be a re-tag option, for community questions? Users can still re-tag questions by going through the edit menu.
Like this question.
EDIT: I have both buttons
-10
votes
2answers
106 views
How do I block a user from superuser?
Is there a way to block a user I do not want reading my questions?
7
votes
1answer
71 views
Chat flag indicator may be getting shown to unqualified users
I'm pretty sure I don't have enough SU rep to be seeing chat flags. However, I saw the "flagged post" indicator when I logged in to chat just now. Clicking on it produced this screen:
I'm guessing ...
5
votes
1answer
73 views
Users with less than 2k rep cannot edit meta posts
I've edited a number of posts this week, using suggested edits because I don't have 2k on SU yet. It just occurred to me that MSU might also have some posts in need of cleanup, so I came by to check.
...
5
votes
1answer
116 views
If I have 580 REP, shouldn't I be 58% on my way to viewing vote counts?
Just look at this:
.
I did the math, 580 = .58 of 1000. I also refreshed the page, clicked on "view vote counts...." I haven't received any rep for a while...
Is it an update issue?
5
votes
2answers
177 views
Why shouldn't acceptance of an answer count towards a tag's score?
When you vote a question or an answer, the votes contribute towards the tag score.
It would seem to be that if an answer is marked as the answer, that says more about the the poster's strength in ...
4
votes
1answer
100 views
Mysterious +5 reputation
After perusing SuperUser I came over here to Meta and checked my profile. I noticed I had mysteriously gained +5 reputation putting me up to 106. This is strange because I haven't asked any questions ...
17
votes
2answers
177 views
Destroying users does not delete answers posted by other users, even though the question has been deleted
The title may seem a bit weird, let me explain.
While going through some questions, I found a spammer network about 5 users with each of the users posting answers on others' questions.
Besides ...
5
votes
1answer
79 views
Why do old questions without any apparent activity get marked as active?
Why is it that some old questions will show recent activity yet when looking at the question page, nothing indicates any change?
For example, How to combine with openvpn, dynamic-ip? has its last ...
5
votes
1answer
38 views
Horizontal tabs in code blocks are a little broken
As the title says. Tabs are not 8 spaces from the beginning of the code block, but rather 8 spaces from the beginning of the line, making them 4 spaces short.
Current display:
$ lsb_release -a
LSB ...
2
votes
1answer
39 views
Rollback of down vote added reputation points that the user didnot have
Today I voted down a question Project specific help [closed] as I wanted it to be closed .When it was closed I tried to roll back my down vote and it worked.Now this user started at a Reputation score ...
2
votes
3answers
73 views
Where is the 'logout' link?
I was on the SuperUser homepage, and noticed that there was no logout link. Came to meta and there's still no logout link. It's now missing on the StackOverflow page too. What's going on?
5
votes
1answer
28 views
Question view count shows zero despite having an answer
How is it possible that a question can have zero (0) views and yet also have an answer?
Doesn't having an answer mean that there was at least one view?
11
votes
1answer
96 views
'closed as exact duplicate' should show the EXACT duplicate
First of all, I know this has been discussed already, and I know that the duplicates are listed at the top of the newer question. However, there are still two issues with how this is handled.
First, ...
1
vote
1answer
70 views
Flair reputation lower than profile rep
Why does my rep appear lower in the Super User flair than it does on my profile?
Here is my image to prove it:
I was wondering if anyone could help me as I don't know how to fix it.
I was also ...
3
votes
1answer
67 views
Markdown discrepancy between live preview and finished posts
(I'm not sure I'm right on this meta site, but since there's a bug tag...)
The following is a link to a web page with a trailing ) in its URL:
test
I know, the parentheses can be escaped, but ...
1
vote
3answers
49 views
Bug with Badges?
The first bug I noticed was that I have a question Java (1.6.0_15) not working on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6.2). Why? that has been viewed over 1000 times yet I never got the Popular Question badge? ...
