Questions tagged [bug]
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Last activity two days ago? Where?
I just logged onto SuperUser for the first time in several weeks, and I noticed that I have "activity" 2 days ago on a long-un-answered question:
Multi Monitor setup goes crazy after locking/...
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Why is the comments box obscured by right hand text box?
This cannot be just my browser, Firefox 3.6, so what is causing it? When I click to add a comment, the comment box (just after the first comment seen in the screenshot) extends beyond the center ...
casualcoder
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I Get "Vote too old to be changed" message but I have not voted on it
Possible Duplicate:
“Vote too old to be changed”… but I haven’t voted!
I can't vote on this question I get the "Vote to old to be changed" message even though I never ...
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Real reputation cap showing wrong on my Recent activity page
I encountered a strange reputation cap behaviour on Super User.
I got only 112 today, as reported on my recent activity page, but it has already given me the corresponding badge and stopped counting....
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null tag bug on Super User?
This question, as of this moment, has a "null" tag. There are four tag "buttons": linux, tools, "null", and threads.
"Retag" simply shows two spaces between "tools" and "threads".
Didn't try to fix ...
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Browers hangs for super user question
Just now , one user posted question : https://superuser.com/questions/68649/help-me-with-my-cisco-ios-config.
When ever i am clicking that question Browser hangs for some time and recovered and show ...
joe
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Reversal badge not available on Super User
I've just noticed that the Reversal badge isn't available on Super User.
Is this an oversight or by design?
It's available on both Stack Overflow and Server Fault
7th November 2009
Still not ...
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Does the Disciplined badge work on SuperUser?
Yesterday I deleted an answer that had 4 upvotes to this question (the answer was a bit misleading and the OP told me it was incorrect), yet I've yet to see a badge.
There has never been a ...
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Tag name not viewable when doing search on superuser
When doing a term search on superuser.com and it switches the term to a tag. If the tag is a tag you are following, you can't read the tag text unless you hover over the tag. The tag get places under ...
MacAnthony
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Incorrect user association to a question?
I find that this Superuser question,
Concatenate pdfs without losing bookmarks
shows last-modified by "John T" when the question is listed
(for example recently active pdf tagged questions),
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"\n" is printed in superuser.com question listing on profile page
I noticed that "\n" is printed in superuser.com listing on user profile page.
I think that "\n" is printed for the questions who have "Have you considered accepting an answer ...
Prashant
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Superuser's software says “'cores' are new tags” instead of “'cores' is a new tag” -- fixable?
Superuser says to me:
Oops! Your question couldn't be
submitted because:
* new users can't create tags; 'cores' are new tags
Shouldn't this say "'cores' is a new tag"?
Just a suggestion.
Christopher Done
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SuperUser tag image truncated
I just got done posting an answer (to this question) in SuperUser and noticed that one of the tags seems to have lost its edge in the image:
missing image removed
I'm not sure if that is related to ...
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SuperUser shows far too many badges (I wish!)
My SuperUser Account is now showing that I have 30 badges, but I only have 7 or so. I've tried logging in and out .. not helping.
While I don't mind having 30 badges listed .. are there even 30 ...
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Duplicate results in SuperUser Search
I was doing a search over at SuperUser and had 6 / 50 duplicate results of What are the best Excel tips? appear on the first page of the following search:
https://superuser.com/search?q=excel+drop+...
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Page Not Found when submitting edited answer
I'm trying to edit this answer of mine over on SuperUser, but when I save the edits, I get redirected to a SU Page Not Found page. Some notes:
My edit is just adding a link to the page (and ...
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Superuser homepage answer bug
I was just looking at this post that had 2 answers, but on the home page it said there were 3 answers.
Edit: I just went back and the third one is there now, does SU have some kind of timing problem?
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Increasing "show x items per page" does not working on SuperUser
I wanted to show 50 items per page in the Unanswered Questions page (default: 15).
After clicking the corresponding button, no questions are shown (blank left column). Same with the button for showing ...
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Can't get past beta password screen from Blackberry
While this only matters for a couple of weeks, it seems impossible to visit superuser.com as it won't go process the beta entrance code.
Soldier.moth
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Javascript on Superuser...
Is anybody else experiencing no-javascript on Super user?
No ability to add comments. No ability to see live-preview of markdown. No ability to run any jQuery code from Greasemonkey...
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What could be the reason of a negative reputation?
This question on su got -100 reputation and I don't know why. In its revision history "Community" named user (I think it is a robot :) ) deleted and locked the question. Maybe this is the reason but ...
spinodal
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rep points not working?
My rep on superuser shows 101, yet I have 11 upvotes, should it not be 110? Is there a delay before it shows up? I have not noticed the same on SO or SF.
SqlACID
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Superuser Bug: "teacher" badge assigned with downvote
I gave 5 answers on superuser. One has been downvoted, and apparently no other answer has been upvoted, so I currently have only one downvote. Despite this, I've been awarded the "teacher" badge, ...
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Superuser: You won 'Necromancer'?
A few of us on Super User have won Necromancer. Judging by the number of days SU has been opened, and the days required to qualify a question for Necromancer, I wouldn't think this was possible.
Jonathan Sampson
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Upvoting an answer on superuser.com not incrementing vote count correctly
Criteria for rating LCD monitor quality
On the above question, I upvoted a couple of answers with 0 vote count and the count was not incremented, but the uparrow highlighted.
Being confused by ...
Jeff Leonard
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5 points on upvote?
I only got 5 points on superuser for an upvote. Any ideas? I haven't met my limit yet.
Daniel A. White
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Answer should have been changed to wiki
When the question for my answer here was changed to CW, I think my answer should have been made CW as well.
JP
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SuperUser bug: badge border is cut off in Chrome and Opera, fine in Firefox
I just noticed this at the bottom of this question on SU:
Chrome 2.0.172.33
Firefox 3.5
EDIT Can anyone with Chrome 3 take a look and tell us if it's wrong there too?
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Potential Bug: See who voted last?
I replied to a question on SuperUser here. The problem came in when I went back to the SuperUser home page and looked at the question, it showed an update by someone else, however apart from voting ...
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Superuser color for followed links
I can't seem to determine which questions I've browsed to on superuser based upon the coloring of the link. As far as I can tell (maybe I'm color blind), there is no difference between the coloring ...
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Superuser bug - daily vote limit reached
I've noticed an asthetic bug on SuperUser - I'm not sure if it affects any other sites. Basically, I've reached the daily voting limit, and clicked on the vote up button. While an error was received, ...
Lucas Jones
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Red remaining-character counter in SU flag reason unreadable/ugly
When you flag a post as "requires moderator attention", you get a box to enter a reason. On SuperUser, this box is pink, unlike the red on the other sites. As you type, the number of characters ...
lc
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Why do the voting arrow images on superuser.com have non-straight edges?
Does it look like this to anyone else?
missing image
Edit: I've edited the image to show the stackoverflow and superuser arrows next to each other. I'm not terribly concerned about the difference in ...
Ant
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Why did I lose 1 reputation?
Is the reputation on superuser working properly ? My reputation just decreased from 101 to 100, without any adverse activity.
Abhinav