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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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What happens with Server tag
Currently I'm trying to add Server tag to this question.
But when I add it, something strange happens. Here are the screenshots:
Adding tags:
Clicking "Save Edits" tells that "Server" tag does ...
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When editing two comments, after having saved the first edit, it is impossible to save the second edit
I have encountered a bug in the site Super User.
I make two comments :
Here is the Tadpole.
There is the Caterpillar.
To edit the comment 1, I click edit. In editing my comment, I add my new text :
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Bug or change for close votes?
We are limited to 20 close votes a day (I guess depending on points).
Normally, when we reach that threshold, a message appears on screen alerting we've done all the voting we're allowed. At this ...
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duplicate link to flag a question as a duplicate
When flagging a question to close, these are the reasons provided:
When selecting "it should be closed for another reason", these are the reasons we then get:
So again a duplicate close reason, a ...
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Suggested edits on meta - something weird
Normally, on a per-site meta, the suggested edit button is grayed out with a message that says that suggested edits are not permitted on meta sites:
However, when manually typing the URL to suggest ...
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Inconsistent reputation history for days without reputation changes
My recent SU reputation history:
There is an entry for Jan 3, on which There were no net reputation changes on this day. No posts are listed for this day.
There is no entry for Dec 29.
It is unclear ...
Daniel BeckMod
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Special tags on fav/ignore lists are not displayed properly without page reload
When adding a moderator-only (black) or required (black bordered) tag to the list of favorite or ignored tags, they're not displayed in their usual style. Only a page reload will give them the ...
Daniel BeckMod
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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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Alignment issue in the Activity tab in Firefox browser
There is an alignment issue in the Activity tab. TThis bottom border is missing for the tabs, which has numbers in it. in the Firefox browser.
Screenshot for reference:
After inspect the element, ...
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Bug/ Error showing up in the "Add Image" modal dialog pop up?
Cant add picture so uploading the Screenshot Link as I am able to.
Opera 45.0
Version information
Version: 45.0.2552.888 (PGO) - Downloading update 100%
Update stream: Stable
System: Windows 8....
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Edits must be at least 6 characters when only editing tags?
I tried to retag this question to add the windows and windows-xp tags, but it wouldn't let me submit my edit because it said that it was less than 6 characters:
At first I thought that it was because ...
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How to include in a comment a call to a user with unicode characters?
I try to add in a comment @Pekka웃.
It pops up an error.
Comments cannot contain that content.
Unlucky.
I remove the last character 웃 and the comment was accepted without any problem...
He answers to ...
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No check box for new captcha
Every so often I have to prove I'm a real human boy, despite having pretty much nothing in common with Pinocchio. I get a pop up asking me to :
Check the CAPTCHA box, and we'll be out of your way
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The slider to make the text area taller does not work on iPad
In questions and answers, the text area has a nice slider to make him taller.
Alas, on iPad, the slider does not work.
It would be nice to make the slider work.
Thank you.
I have Safari on iOS 7 ...
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Is there a problem with the close vote review?
Since the down time at the weekend I have noticed that, when reviewing close votes, the vote to close pop-up does not always refer to the question I am about to vote on.
For instance, just now I ...
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Selection issues with Low Quality Answer edition
I sometimes come across certain low quality answers that require editing (because they are right but poorly formatted, link-only, etcetera).
However, whenever I try to edit such answers, I can't ...
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Pinged username disappears in comments
Strange little bug. I write in a comment:
@mpy: Blah blah blah...
And on submitting the comment, the ping ‘@mpy: ’ disappears leaving just:
Blah blah blah...
It would also disappear every time ...
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Reviewing the same item two (or more times) times
Here is a screenshot of me reviewing a post that I reviewed earlier:
I know that it has happened many more times, but this is the first that I had had a comment on the post that would tell me for ...
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+4 rep for an upvote, meta and main site rep don't match
I'm not usually one to quibble about reputation, but i'm curious about this
Answer gets upvoted
I get +4 rep rather than +10
I've obviously not been downvoted, and my daily rep is 190. Did i hit ...
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Tags are not appearing properly in Tags Field
Why this tags are not displaying properly on IE8?
Whether this is an known issue?
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Close bug if post already closed
I loaded a post, there were already 4 close votes. I felt it should be migrated, so I clicked the close link to bring up the options but received a message similar to
You can only open the close ...
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The site does not accept drag-and-dropped comment
In a comment, I have dragged-and-dropped some text.
Now the comment text area has my comment, and I want to post it. So I click on Add Comment.
But this does not work.
The site keeps telling me to ...
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Reputation transaction history is incomplete (missing today’s paired transactions)
This answer, which I posted 2012–12–11 21:27:14Z, got accepted and unaccepted within the following 26 hours. The following screen shots were taken 2012–12–12, approximately 16:40Z and 22:40Z:
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"Ignored tags" visibility preference misbehaves
I just had this happen:
The single search result disappeared the moment the page finished loading.
While it's possible to hide ignored tags (presuming this is a feature), I didn't check that ...
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"You cannot delete this post" error when voting to undelete
I just tried to vote to undelete a topic (it was on the way to being a duplicate when the OP deleted it), and after I was asked whether I wanted to vote to undelete...
... this error message was ...
Daniel BeckMod
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SSL Error - chrome
For the past two days chrome is giving me this warning when I login to superuser
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No background on downarrow-beside-username popup on main page, but it is there on question pages
If I go to superuser.com and mouse over the arrow near my name, it's hard to read because there is no background. I click through to a question, and on that page there is no problem.
This is on Web+ ...
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