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Design flaw in the review audit system
My question is a little different from this previous Meta question: Commenting on a high quality audit.
A high-quality question was masqueraded as a new question. All of the previous comments and ...
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Yet Another Bad Audit – It was wrong to agree with a moderator
I just got this question – Conversion from WebM to MP4 in Ubuntu is slow and bad quality –
in the Reopen Review Queue.
The question displays a command and its CLI output,
and makes an attempt to ...
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Why wasn't this question deleted automatically?
Here's the link: https://superuser.com/questions/614234/errorunable-to-acsess-jarfile
As it's downvoted and old, it is supposed to be deleted automatically, but that doesn't happen.
Looks like that'...
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6-Characters minimum on editing with tag edit
I tried to edit a question because it was tagged badly. It seemed mostly fine otherwise, though I decided to fix 2 punctuation and one capitalization errors (which would not normally warrant a ...
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Link Error in "Attention! Some of your previous edits were rejected." message
When you receive the following message:
The hyperlinked page is https://superuser.com/users/current?tab=activity&sort=suggestions
which did not seem to provide what was described: instead I ...
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Visual Defect on Privileges Page
On the privileges page, when hovering over a row, the text-decoration:underline rule looks weird. Most of the the content is inside of a div inside of an anchor tag, so most of it doesn't have ...
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Add / Show comment with less than 50 reputation
If a user has less than 50 reputation, it is known that they cannot comment on posts other than their own.
I've been in a situtaion, (this applies to the wider stack exchange interface) where I have ...
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Edit history messed up when improving a suggested edit
I've noticed recently that about half the time when I improve a suggested edit and then check the post's edit history, the two edits (mine and the suggested one) have been swapped around, with my edit ...
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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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How can I improve suggested tag wiki edit when there is no option to improve?
Screen shot shows (on top left) I can "Approve, reject or improve edits suggested by users"
But how do I improve a tag wiki suggested edit? I have no option to improve it, only to approve or reject ...
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Review Audit Failure
I just failed a review audit on this Hard drive clicking for 16 times during startup
I was just adding a comment to ask the OP if they could add their screenshots to the SE Imgur. Other than that I ...
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change captcha without a mouse
Just noticed that while typing my last question... I got the Are You a Human page, with the captcha.
I couldn't read one of the words for nothing. And there was no way to focus the reload button (or ...
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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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SuperUser has wrong answer in one of its tests
I was just volunteering some time reviewing First Posts, and SuperUser presented an answer regarding not Broadcasting SSID's. The answer was technically correct, but very misleading. I took my time ...
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Oops, I think I managed to dispute my own flag!
So, funny story:
I was reviewing Late Answers earlier this week, and came across this one:
It looked more like a comment than an answer, but I wanted to see the other answer referenced here just to ...
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Some tag edits cause a demand for body edits
Usually, when editing the tags on a question as part of a tag cleanup simply editing the tag is accepted by the system.
Most recently: here and here
Occasionally, a popup appears demanding 6 ...
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What happened to the “too old” message?
I just voted to close this two-year-old question
because I believed that it was off-topic for Super User,
and that it belonged on another site in the Stack Exchange network.
However, I was not given ...
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Circular duplicates aren't handled in an intuitive way
I've been reviewing close votes and found this question (let's call it Question 1):
But its proposed duplicate (Question 2) is already marked as a duplicate of Question 1.
Still, I've been able to ...
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Support Option-Return for inserting new lines in Super User chat
On Mac OS X, pressing Option-Return inserts newlines in text input fields instead of e.g. submitting a form. This is a system-wide convention (Cocoa's insertNewlineIgnoringFieldEditor:).
Very few ...
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Questions deleted by the OP mark answers as deleted by their owner
This topic was deleted by the user who posted the question.
The answer was deleted with the topic. But the page says that the answer was deleted by it's owner at the exact same time, which is simply ...
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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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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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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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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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Reputation Leagues ignore daily reputation cap and reputation loss due to deletion
The reputation leagues seem to ignore reputation loss due to post deletion. The reputation earned for the same post is counted though, in fact, it seems to ignore reputation capping.
Oliver has an ...
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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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Reviews page slow to load
The superuser reviews page is considerably slower to load than the other SE reviews pages I frequent. In addition, I have seen this a few times in the last few days.
So, the question is: Why is the ...
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The "You must have 50 reputation to comment" notification is not very readable
I just realized that this sites color scheme makes it nearly impossible to see how much rep you need to add a comment. Change it, maybe, possibly? Here's a screenshot.
EDIT: I'm using Chrome version ...
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Bug in Suggested Edit Review stats
When viewing a specific suggested edit review (accessed on the History tab in the review queue), you can see the reviewers' approve/reject statistics. I noticed that my stats reported here are clearly ...
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Bug in the search implementation
I just noticed that searching for terminator (a well known terminal emulator) also returns hits for terminal:
As you can see in the image above, terminal is highlighted as though it were a hit. It ...
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why is it telling me always "You can only post once every 5 minutes."
I think it's a bug, but it doesn't allow me to post a question.
You can only post once every 5 minutes.
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Long question titles not consistently shortened in user profile popup
Long question titles are usually shortened in the user profile popup. This is not applied consistently, as shown in the screenshot below.
The first question title is not shortened, but truncated by ...
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new /review reviewed count bug
The sum of all of the posts that were reviewed by everyone today do not add to the total that was posted.
Does this mean that something was deleted? I find that rather hard to believe as think many ...
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"Unable to load popup" every other time
In Safari Version 5.1.7 (7534.57.2) and Firefox 12.0 on OS X, I can reproducibly trigger the following error message:
Click a link that opens a styled popup (not a dialog box), like close or flag.
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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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Internal search doesn't find questions when only part of tag is included
I've checked a post on my phone, than tried to search for it in my pc, but didn't succeeded for first try:
After modification I've found it:
There was just a slight difference: first search term ...
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Right answer picked up wrongly as an audit, because somebody marked it as a new question?
This answer appeared in the First Post queue:
Change it the way you would your videos library by right-clicking the folder on your hard drive, choosing properties and selecting the location tab.
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Why is the moderator diamond so big?
If you take a look here
you'll notice that the badge is much bigger than the username itself (and it is a joke but used to hide the actual name). I have also noticed that the diamond is a bigger font ...
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Reputation change in the notification bar appears to be incorrect
We get notification for reputation changes like below.
The problem is, it shows +1? When I open the link, it shows me +10.
Assuming this was to save space or indicate how many updates/changes had ...
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Historical significance lock reason on answers still states "this question"
While the content dispute and off-topic comments lock reasons use a more general term ("this post"), the historical significance lock reason on both questions and answers still states:
This ...
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HTTPS links aren't accepted when proposing a duplicate
I'm using HTTPS Everywhere plugin which redirects me to HTTPS versions of websites if they are available. It works on SuperUser too, so all SU pages are loaded through HTTPS.
I have just tried to ...
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View more link under badges appears even if there's only one badge left
If you visit this user's page you'll notice that even if there's only one Badge unlocked by the user, the 'view more' link is shown.
The view more link makes sense if there's many badges but in this ...
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When flagging, requested to have link to duplicate
I wanted to flag two of the answers to this question as duplicates of the accepted answer, as they were later, and had less information (and thus serve no purpose).
For the flag (can't yet vote to ...
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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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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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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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outdated tag (windows-defender)
It appears that the tag windows-defender is a bit out of date. It states:
In Windows 8, Windows Defender is a built in antivirus software product that replaces Microsoft Security Essentials. Before ...
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Tests in Suggested Edits queue take to much to load
Lately, when reviewing the Suggested Edits queue, sometimes it takes about 30-40 seconds to load the next question, staying a while at the loading item ... text.
This only happens when the next ...
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Captcha freezes and does nothing
I try to post
The captcha bot (are you a human ?) appears
I guess the right letters
A text field appears on the screen, asking me to cut and paste into another text field.
I do that.
Nothing else ...
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Invalid review question? Can it be removed from the audit queue?
The answer in this review looks good enough to me - unless there is a context where this suggestion has been 'answered' so often that it is spam, but that cannot be seen from the audit.
It's not the ...
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