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My question "Making title attribute of HTML elements display as text instead of as tooltips" was removed as off-topic; where can I ask it?
My question "Making title attribute of HTML elements display as text instead of as tooltips" was removed as off-topic with the explanation that "This question is not about computer ...
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Inbox not marked as read
When someone posts a comment on a question or answer from me, I get a notification in my inbox.
If I click the notification and get redirected to the question, that notification itself is not marked ...
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What the heck does this mean: “Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.”
I just got this message when trying to leave a fairly innocuous comment for an edit on a question:
“Comment reserved for system use. Please use an appropriate comment.”
The only way I could submit ...
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Possible bug with the new image hosting system: PNG images are declared “Too small…” if both dimensions are not equal to or larger than 160 pixels
Preface: While I saw this similar question on Meta Stack Exchange, and the original poster there is complaining about the 160 limit in general. My issue is with the restriction being applied to both ...
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I messed up. What can I do? => This is an audit test
I just fell into the following "audit test".
It's just a question of somebody saying "I messed up, can anybody help me?", such a question should not be an audit test!
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Why is a tag too similar to itself? [duplicate]
I wanted to tag this question with variables. When I typed "vari" the only suggestion was environment-variables. Since the description says "system-wide" and my question concerned ...
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What is going on with this site's syntax highlighting?
Inconsistent syntax highlighting for reg and powershell code
(There is an intentional leading whitespace on code fence code for it to display correctly)
This was posted on Meta SE on 2024.06.26 after ...
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Too large fonts on mobile
Font sizes on Super User are way to big on mobile devices (or, more specifically: viewports with widths up to 640 px). This does not affect all Stack Exchange sites, it’s a problem with the Super User ...
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Bad summary on DuckDuckGo featured results
So, I was trying to go to the site, and accidentally searched for "Superuser", and got this.
It routes correctly to this site, but it looks like someone hijacked the search term by ...
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Why are there only few choices for flagging inappriopriate site of the network?
Only these 5 are available. I feel like some common options are missing, such as https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com, which gets confused a lot because there are a lot of older recommendation ...
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Question title doesn't wrap properly
Noticed this weird formatting issue
Why doesn't the text wrap the whole work 'conventional' properly?
The question title doesn't contain a '-' Can I increase [ELAN] Trackpoint sensitivity [on my ...
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Why was my bounty amount sent to me?
I deleted my question and then the bounty amount got refunded, why? This can be exploited to create infinite bounties.
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When I try to vote to close this question as a duplicate, the site tells me it doesn't have an upvoted answer, but it does. Is this a bug?
See these two questions:
whenever I start my windows laptop, after laptop is opened terminal is automatically opened and inside terminal its written -, and
On windows startup terminal opens ...
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Why was I forced to set the bounty to 50 reputation when I had 78?
I was forced on this question to set the bounty to 50 when I had 78, Why?
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My question couldn't be submitted because of an 'error above'. Which error above?
Am I missing something here? I can't submit my question and I don't know why.
Which error above??!!
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HTML Formatting Error
I tried to downvote a question. However, I don't have enough rep to do this, and I got the following message:
I'm no expert on HTML, pretty sure the <a href="/help/whats-reputation">...
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Answer box cursor broke
I just went to answer a question and my cursor is moved one space over to the left for some reason. Here's an image of it (I just pressed space before taking the screenshot, I didn't move the cursor):
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The tag [variables] is too similar to [variables]
When creating the variables tag, the following dialog pops out:
After clicking "Yes, I'm sure", the system throws:
So does the variables tag exist or not?
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Unable to have inline code in a comment when a backslash is before the tilda
When I write a comment, I believe my only option to format as code is to use tildas. But if there is a backslash before the tilda, it seems to escape, and ruin my code formatting.
Example: F:\
I can ...
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Stop asking me about cookies / multiple, nonstop popups
When I visit Super User, it asks if I want cookies. I am using macOS 11 / Safari. This is using the default setting Privacy > Prevent cross-site tracking. Not Private Window.
Then I go through the ...
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badge awarded, but I already had it for almost three years
Today I was notified that I was awarded the gold badge for the tag microsoft-excel
Only two others have that gold tag badge, and they both earned it in 2019.
The thing is, I already earned exactly ...
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HTTP status 404 for image on Meta's 404 page
Stack Exchange 404 error pages ('page not found') usually have site-specific images, like this one from the main site:
However, the image on the equivalent page on the meta site 404s itself; it leads ...
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Korean characters not allowed
For some reason posts or comments with some Korean characters inside aren't allowed. For example in this question it must be worked around using images How to search a Korean word made up of two or ...
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Bug report: similar questions scroll problem
When I create a new question, enter a title, then scroll the "similar questions" window, the text scrolls while a copy of the text stays fixed. See the screen recording. This is on Firefox, Macos 10....
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Why can I not answer my own question - is this a bug?
Back in July of last year I asked this question. I have an answer I would like to give, but I am not allowed to.
At the base of the page, it says:
Highly active question. Earn 10 reputation in ...
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Automatic change of formatting while we answer [closed]
Whenever I give answers to the questions, my original format of the answer is not maintained. It is changed to all continuous statements all line by lines. So it becomes very clumsy for the reader, ...
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Accused of "targeted voting" (upvoting certain users) - Is the system broken (beyond what we already know it is)?
Today I received a "moderator message" with what seems to be a serious accusation. Quoted in full:
Hello,
We're writing in reference to your Super User account:
https://superuser.com/...
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What the heck is this invisible question and and answer post?
I honestly don’t know how I got to this thread to even link to it, but what the heck is this about? I also cross-posted this on Meta Stack Exchange because of the sheer oddness of it all and it seems ...
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Formatted text rendered wrongly in question but is correct in edit preview
I stumbled upon a question that has some incorrectly rendered block of formatted text:
I wanted to edit and correct this but was surprised to see that in the editor it looks like this (no change made ...
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Strange audit result
In the Close Votes review queue, I got Graphics Card Adapter Is Facing Backwards as an audit question.
The question had a colorful history: closed by a moderator as unclear, subsequently edited a ...
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Why haven't I got a notification that an answer has been posted to my question?
I asked a question today. An answer was posted after an hour, but I haven't got any notifications for it.
Any updates on this?
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Why are some tags grey and some are light grey?
I'm here to ask why are some tags grey and some are light grey?
See in this photo:
is light grey, but is dark grey. Why is that?
Edit: it does it here with the tags of this question
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Top bar is visible through 'welcome back' message
.top-bar { z-index: 5050; } versus #overlay-header { z-index: 5052; } so the overlay should win. Strangely enough disabling the top bar z-index fixes the issue. Another fix is to set the overlay ...
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Alignment issue in the CAPTCHA window
There is an alignment issue in the CAPTCHA window.
Some time the I'm not a robot checkbox went out of the modal window.
Some time the modal window occupying the full width of the page, it expected ...
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Why is this question best suited for Superuser instead of Sharepoint SE?
When I saw this question, I flagged it the moderator(s) because I thought (and still think) that it is best suited for Sharepoint SE. However, the flag was denied.
My question is simple: why is the ...
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How can someone have only 1 reputation?
I found a user with only one reputation even though he had answered previous questions and seemed to have quite an activity on superuser.
is it a hack, a bug or a possible superuser policy/ban?
(I ...
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Please be mindful of non-programming and development question migrations
Stack Overflow is a site for programming and development questions. This question was recently migrated to Stack Overflow even though it has nothing to do with programming and development: Create ...
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How did I exceed the reputation cap today from only upvotes?
Today, I received +201 reputation from only upvotes, exceeding the daily reputation limit of +200.
This shouldn't be possible according to Help Center » Reputation & Moderation » What is ...
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Button header in reopen queue does not scroll horizontally
This was my initial view in the reopen queue. The Skip button was out of view:
When I scrolled all the way to the right, the top bar stayed in place and the button still was not visible:
FireFox 63....
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How did a user with no actions and only 101 rep get the Mortarboard badge?
According to this page, on Jul 19 '12 at 23:44 Tim Stone was awarded the Mortarboard badge which is defined as:
Earn at least 200 reputation (the daily maximum) in a single day.
How did he earn ...
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Editing Comment Issue
I just noticed when I go to edit a comment from a typo or whatever, I get back [object Object].
Question: Am I the only one affected by this and what is it or what does it mean?
I already closed ...
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Log in required when moving to SuperUser on iPad?
When moving around the sites on StackExchange using Safari on my iPad (not the StackExchange App), I am fine when moving to any site other than SuperUser. When logged in I can switch sites and stay ...
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Gold/Silver/Bronze badge icons appear to be cut off
All the badge icons are cutoff, so they appear to be half-moons.
This appears to be happening everywhere on the main site where the little badge circles appear: at the top of the page next to my ...
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Unclear wording on comment editing timeout
So when trying to edit a comment before 5 minutes after posting, you get the error message "Comments may only be edited for 5 minutes."
I think that message is is unclear and should be changed to ...
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Why is this accepted answer not at the top?
I found this question from a Google search. I noticed the accepted answer is second, even though it is accepted and has significantly more votes than the "top" answer.
This question on meta says that ...
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Software-rec tag; disclaimer looks cut off
I stumbled across a question that is on hold, so I checked out the reason why, and eventually found the software-rec tag, which I thought was weird since SuperUser didn't do software rec's and there's ...
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Commentator badge progress shows 1/10 before having commenting priviledge
I just received the privilege to post comments on SuperUser (yay!), but before that happened I noticed that the Commentator badge already has a progress of 1/10. I believe this also happened to me on ...
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Ask Question and Last Seen Time Discrepancy
I noticed a question where someone asked it 8 minutes ago but their profile stated they were last seen 23 minutes ago so there's a discrepenacy I suppose or maybe this is as expected per however this ...
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Trying to log off StackExchange [duplicate]
I was told this is a duplicate and I know people don't like duplicates but I don't know what else but to ask again. I checked the StackExchange icon and there is no log off there. PLEASE I'm so tired ...
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